Legalizing Drugs Eliminates The Black Market

[initforme]

The drug war is over. It's lost. The genie cannot be put back in the bottle.

 

[ScorpioRising007]

Not. I always hear lefties say we need to legalize drugs to eliminate the black market. But, apparently, they are wrong about that. Who would have ever guessed?

5 suspects charged with murder in Southern California desert killings in dispute over marijuana

Prosecutors filed murder charges Tuesday against five suspects in the fatal shootings of six men at a remote dirt crossroads in the Southern California desert after what investigators said was a dispute over marijuana. The DA's office identified them as Jose Nicolas Hernandez-Sarabia, 33...

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Legalizing drugs is the way to go. There will always be crime regardless if drugs are legalized or not. Drugs need to be totally legalized though. I know many people who buy their weed legally now including myself. I smoke it to help with my biplolar depression, anxiety attacks and PTSD.

 

[ColonelAngus]

Not if the legal drugs are too expensive due to over taxing the product.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Pot is so much stronger now than it was 50 years ago. Before I quit for health reasons, I got more stoned on one joint than I would get on a whole bag when I first started smoking it.
I don't advocate legalization, but I do advocate dealing with it openly and honestly rather than through undercover liars and manipulators. They have given law enforcement a bad name. There was a time in living memory when people actually trusted the police.

you can buy weaker pot at an dispensary....

 

[Independentthinker]

Legalizing drugs is the way to go. There will always be crime regardless if drugs are legalized or not. Drugs need to be totally legalized though. I know many people who buy their weed legally now including myself. I smoke it to help with my biplolar depression, anxiety attacks and PTSD.

It's not working.

 

[Captain Caveman]

We were told by the left that if we legalized drugs, the black market would be no more.

I'm Centre Eight /Right Wing. Drugs should be considered a health issue and not a criminal issue.

 

[DudleySmith]

The drug war is over. It's lost. The genie cannot be put back in the bottle.

There was never a real war on drugs.

 

[Dragonlady]

We were told by the left that if we legalized drugs, the black market would be no more.

The black market has been wiped out here for drugs. Pot now sells for a little as $50 an ounce. Or you can grow your own - legally. There's no money in selling pot any more.

In the late summer, the online growers are practically giving the stuff away before the new crop comes in.