In article >,
"Dave" > wrote:

> "hahabogus" > wrote in message
> 47...
> > Gloria P > wrote in
> > on Aug Sun 2009 pm
> >
> >> notbob wrote:
> >>> Do my eyes deceive me. Has Mexico had a law enforcement epiphany
> >>> that will rock North America?
> >>>
> >>> "Mexico decriminalizes small-scale drug possession"
> >>>
> >>> http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...COzYSi8kbAUY1l
> >>> LDdqc4vAD9A70MDO0
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Unfortunately, until the US does the same thing, the drug cartels
> >>> will continue to prosper and grow. It's US drug use that fuels them,
> >>> not some campesino leading a donkey and puffing a doob. We ARE the
> >>> problem, make no mistake.
> >>>
> >>> We desperately need the same reform here. Not only to break the back
> >>> of the drug cartels, but to put a stop to what has become a GROWTH
> >>> INDUSTRY! in this coutnry, namely, prisons. I believe in capitalism,
> >>> sure, but making the detention of its own citizens a profitable
> >>> business is beyond abhorent. It's the beginning of the end.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> What say ye all?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Are you advocating drug use but not the sale of it? Doesn't make
> >> sense.
> >>
> >> If drug use/dealing is bad (yes, it is) why make it legal at any
> >> level? That's pretty hypocritical. I can see overlooking the user in
> >> favor of cracking down on the dealers who are profiting mightily, but
> >> if we could ever get the dealing eliminated, what then for the users?
> >>
> >> If there were no users, dealers would of out of business. If there
> >> were no dealers, then what, cold turkey for all the users you have
> >> enabled?
> >>
> >> gloria p
> >>
> >
> > If you legalize drugs, you then can enforce trade laws as to quality and
> > generate tax money from
> > it's sales. Those taxes would more than likely be greater the the cost of
> > the trade law enforcement.
> > Plus a great deal of money could be saved in prison costs. So making
> > things buyable at state run
> > 'drug' stores would seem to be a good idea.
> >
>
> They can't control the flow of drugs now, how will making them legal change
> anything?

By removing the profit margin...
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