01-02-2008, 04:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Man Of Tomorrow Pot is also peddled on the streets. It's basically the starter kit for drug hustlers my out of touch friend.
Just because pot would be legal wouldn't erase drug dealers from existance. It would enhance them because they would basically have free will to sell it without being hassled by the law.
Let me give you an example:
Guns aren't illegal
But that doesn't stop people from selling guns on the street ok?
And I counter that with another example, when Prohibition ended black market booze sales plummeted to probably near non-existence (And I'm being generous) if any at all. Since alcohol was legal to buy at your local store after the abolition of the 18th amendment, there was no need for the mobsters to sell it anymore, the market for illegal booze went dry.
If guns were made illegal, we would see many more gun lords and gun dealers, a powerful underground industrial element for production and of course a black market full of demanding customers. If pot was legal that wouldn't stop drug dealers from selling it
No, but it would practically destroy their share of the market.
It would actually increase the amount of drug dealers because it would be easier to get and they would turn it for profit. |
No it wouldn't. If pot is legalized, then the role of the pot dealer is made moot, and the market for street pot would dry up. There'd be very little demand for it since you could go to a local drug store and buy some government-regulated and taxed weed legally. Drug dealers may exist after the legalization of marijuana, but they would lose pretty much all of their clientèle. |