But bar owners buy sound systems, not automatic firearms. They listen to community feedback and care for their patrons. Seems worth emulating to me, prohibition of alcohol certainly wasn't.
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Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin
These substances are uniquely life destroying, so I believe there’s another way that should be tried before letting the free market do what its largely done with alcohol.
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Government monopoly. Manufacturing, distribution, zero marketing, massive investment in effective treatment for addiction... With the objective of REDUCING consumption and ultimately going OUT of business. Something no free marketer would ever consider.
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Replying to @_Z__ @chesaboudin
Do you think there would still be a black market in this circumstance?
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Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin
If the prices were kept low, probably not much. Who would want to engage in a business with great legal risk and little, if any, profit?
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Replying to @_Z__ @chesaboudin
I'm not sure the government is a efficient enough entity to keep the prices low, and I sure would like the purveyor of these fine substances to be medically responsible for the consequences of their use, and I certainly do not want to be held so as a taxpayer.
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Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin
“Efficiency” and profits is not what this very unusual market needs. And “responsibility” and substance abuse is a very tricky subject, isn’t it?
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Replying to @_Z__ @chesaboudin
I as a taxpayer certainly don't want to be subsidize the drug usage which is what I would argue what we are now doing with prohibition. I am not anxious to lurch from one subsidy to another. Maybe let the market and public discourse have a moment?
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Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin
As a taxpayer, how do you propose not multiplying the devastation the alcohol industry model has wrought on society?
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Replying to @_Z__ @chesaboudin
We tried prohibition of alcohol, and quickly reversed it recognizing just how much money it placed in the hands of criminals this is a much smaller quantity, but producing similar violence.
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Sure, but the devastating results from alcohol persist. So your idea is to simply hand the trade to the free market, like we did with alcohol?
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