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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Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin
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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Replying to @_Z__ @chesaboudin
I ask you to consider whether this might decrease usage? I think through prohibition and the huge price for the relatively cheap to manufacture chemicals we as a society pay for a huge marketing and advertising campaign for lawlessness.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30CDHuiRCrc …
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Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin
If we’re talking about reducing the cost to society, a monopoly will vastly outperform any free market solution.
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Replying to @_Z__ @chesaboudin
Oh absolutely not, A monopoly is hugely inefficient and we only grant them out of reverence to either political pressure or in deference to intellectual property.
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How do you define “efficiency”? What business will operate without profit and hopes of increasing the market for their products?
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Replying to @_Z__ @chesaboudin
You've narrowly focused there but nonprofit ones? Most medical products? (don't see knee surgeons out there with baseball bats and a spinner sign) Even bars are not nearly as pushy as the pushers.
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Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin
At least you may agree that these products are far from normal in their ability to devastate individuals, families and communities.
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