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To avoid the massive, punative taxation and buy the shit for about half or more what you would pay in the store.Wrong. You don't ever hear about bootlegging arrests because they're not "sexy." It's boring, blase ATF stuff. But it happens daily. And it's stiff FEDERAL FELONY charges, not misdemeanor pay your ticket crap like we have now for weed possession.You don't know what you're talking about.
Were there just as many arrests for bootlegging after Prohibition was repealed?
Of course not. Illegal drug dealers would pretty much be put out of business by legal drug dealers, who'd be able to undercut the prices of illegal drug dealers.
You really think there won't be a black market? Folks will be growing their own weed because it will be legal to do so. But just like booze, they will start selling it, without the tax stamp, and that's where the hammer will be coming down.
Right now, I can brew my own beer at home. It's legal to do so. What do you think would happen to me if I got caught selling my home brew to friends, neighbors, anyone who wanted it?
Use your noggin.
Well, this is the way I see it. Why would I buy beer from a bootlegger when I can just walk to the corner store? I feel that the same would apply for weed.
We have a massive black market on cigarettes too, always have, and they bust folks for that too.