If drugs were legal, there would be no need to kill anyone for fear of being revealed or extorted. Prohibition also created a significant amount of violence...

If drugs were legal, there would be no need to kill anyone for fear of being revealed or extorted. Prohibition also created a significant amount of violence... which has all but mysteriously disappeared. I wonder why. Did people magically become less evil? I think not. I think a fundamental flaw in the system was addressed properly back then, and certain perverse incentives were eliminated. Eliminate the illegality and you eliminate the incentive for "hits" to prevent jail time or extortion.