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The comparison of heroin or crack or meth to alcohol really is foolish.When was the last time you heard of a drive-by shooting perpetrated by Jim Beam?
Don'tcha think? And besides, you really want to legalize those?
But, to the point -- bootlegging still goes on. It's a every weekend occurrence here where I live, it's a rite of passage for 18-19 year olds to bootleg Texas beer over to New Mexico or Oklahoma, selling it at double and sometimes triple the price -- since the only legal beer in those states is the 3.2% crap.
Moonshine is still made and sold. Folks still get killed over it.
Tobacco -- there's still a illicit trade there.
Legalizing and taxing this stuff does NOT get rid of the illicit trade, and in the case of the really hard and addicting drugs? It will have no effect at all.
If you think about it.