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This has been a failed experiment. When you legalize drugs, it comes at increased cost due to taxes and regulations. The black market can easily compete becaus
by billy99k 1y ago
This has been a failed experiment. When you legalize drugs, it comes at increased cost due to taxes and regulations.
The black market can easily compete because they can sell a cheaper product without either of these things (and now that it's legal, it makes it easier to bring shipments into the country under the guise of a legal business) and it eventually drives the legitimate companies out of business.
This has now been seen in both Colorado and California.
Violence still drives the business and it only makes the cartels richer. I'm also tired of all the pot smoke you can smell everyone now in every US city where it's legalized.
The people like me, that didn't want drugs legalized, predicted all this would happen a decade or so ago.
Update: you know I'm right
- bigyabai 1y agoOnce upon a time, America attempted to genuinely prohibit alcohol. The rest is calculus and easily-predicted history.