I don’t know what I’m talking about and @PlanMaestro disagrees but, I would think you could fight it so hard in Mexico (with US help) that you could significantly cut down on the violence.
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We spend $50 BN a year on the war on drugs, and have been fighting it for 50 years. I repeat, you think the problem with it is scale?
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The reason I would be wrong is that the increase in drug use from legalization is worse for society than the savings in lives and money from not fighting it and the potential benefits from the reallocation of those resources to lower taxes, debt, or drug rehabilitation programs
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Well put
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And more importantly the obvious prohibition example in the US. Taking away the profitability of criminal enterprise is huge
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I don’t know man, when I was looking for warehouses in Texas, a rather charming man (frightening really) from Mexico was building warehouses in Alvarado south of ft worth. That drug money is going right back into the economy. When I asked him how he got into real estate he...
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