EverCurious
Gold Member
I think the tax payer has ultimately /always/ paid for these drugs one way or another. If it's not some tax payer funded EBT paying, then it's some tax payers property being stolen and sold to pay for it.
Legalize and the black market bottom falls out and prices dump, less property crime, auto theft, less jail space needed, maybe gangs dry up too. Build the wall as well and we could /seriously/ clean up American streets. We'd be left with ill-funded "gangs" who basically just run prostitution rings and/or steal cars & TVs. A bit less dangerous variety of criminal because there's not as much money in two-bit thievery and questionable whores. Once we kill the "lifestyle" that gives them enough money to be famous, I suspect many people will be less interested in the whole drug/gang/criminal scene from the word go.
The black market would still exist just as it does for marijuana. You get a better quality and pay less from the street.
Disagree, with experience. Pot was legal up here until 1992 when the fed forced us into criminalizing. There was no "black market" pot, it was all MTF from the valley - as a matter of pride. The "black market" only came about during the war on drugs, after criminalization.
Despite having voted to legalize like two or three years ago, the city is just now getting the shit straight for legit businesses in Anchorage. They've dragged it out as long as they could, and even still, there wasn't really a black market for pot, only synthetic pot and harder drugs. Most Anchorage folks are patiently waiting for the city to get their heads out of their assess.
I'm waiting to evaluate the effects of the legalization and marketing of pot on the prevalence of other drugs, when I was in HS other drugs were kept out of the city by "Alaska Grown" pride; something we Alaskan's /still/ retain even after a decade plus of it being illegal. I believe we're going to see a decrease of drug crime personally. And for the record, no, I don't smoke pot, I decided to quit back in HS, long before it even became illegal.
EDIT- got out on a bit of a rant there, but I mean, no black market for pot is going to survive, because you can literally grow the stuff in the kitchen window - it's a weed, seriously, it grows like crazy up here - farmers burn the shit because it'll take over the field if they're not careful heh
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