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    1. Paul‏ @netfire4 Jun 15
      Replying to @_Z__ @chesaboudin

      Paul Retweeted Alec Karakatsanis

      There is no evidence whatsoever that the government is capable of enforcing it's monopoly through violence.https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1403101994324201476?s=20 …

      Paul added,

      Alec KarakatsanisVerified account @equalityAlec
      *Update* Eleventh, I just needed to add: there is no evidence that police/prosecutors/prisons reduce "crime," especially that they reduce crime relative to other alternatives. Think about the disastrous waste of the "War on Drugs": https://twitter.com/equalityAlec/status/1380200486129795082 …
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    2. Z 🇺🇸‏ @_Z__ Jun 15
      Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin

      They wouldn’t need violence. All they would need is to make the price of the products so low that it would no longer make economic sense to sell it in the black market. No profit = No black market

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    3. Paul‏ @netfire4 Jun 15
      Replying to @_Z__ @chesaboudin

      If you did it that way there's no reason to prosecute them, in the intermediate term, not arresting them is also safer than arresting them. #endthedrugwar today.pic.twitter.com/v0hXfP66wr

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    4. Z 🇺🇸‏ @_Z__ Jun 15
      Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin

      Incorrect. In the near term arrest them, then do the same for the intermediate and long term. You have to make it an undesirable business venture in every way. All risk. No reward.

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    5. Z 🇺🇸‏ @_Z__ Jun 15
      Replying to @_Z__ @netfire4 @chesaboudin

      Long term. No one wants to engage in the business because there is no money in it. “Entrepreneur” incarceration plummets. Cartel riches vanish. Cartel government corruption ends. Black market related murders cease.

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    6. Paul‏ @netfire4 Jun 15
      Replying to @_Z__ @chesaboudin

      Paul Retweeted John Hamasaki

      Yeah but 40 years of mass incarceration have proven that enforcement and prohibition are counterproductive. We cannot enforce the Monopoly you speak of we've tried especially in such controlled circumstances as behind bars!https://twitter.com/HamasakiLaw/status/1402336179702226947?s=20 …

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      John Hamasaki @HamasakiLaw
      One other point this illustrates is the futility of the supply-side focus of the Drug War. If police can't keep drugs out of heavily, heavily secured facilities, what makes you think that after 50 years of trying, billions in policing, it will work now? https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-07/opioid-overdoses-sheriff-narcan-jails …
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    7. Z 🇺🇸‏ @_Z__ Jun 15
      Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin

      Government monopoly has never been tried and is likely the best route out of this wasteful hell. Enforce it? How long do you think an international manufacturing and distribution business can operate by losing money at every step of the process?

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    8. Paul‏ @netfire4 Jun 15
      Replying to @_Z__ @chesaboudin

      In prison there is an attempted government monopoly, black market is prevalent it has obviously failed. We have a government licensed monopoly outside too, it's just ineffective and counterproductive. Government monopoly by force has been tried for 50 years and has failed.

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    9. Z 🇺🇸‏ @_Z__ Jun 15
      Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin

      A prison is not the equivalent of a society. The government has never has a monopoly over this trade. We should try it because these substances are very unusual and should not be regulated by criminals and promoted by those who would seek to “grow the market”.

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    10. Paul‏ @netfire4 Jun 15
      Replying to @_Z__ @chesaboudin

      It is a government monopoly, which licenses corporate entities to help produce for it, and in prisons the government provides all the pain management as a monopoly they think they need, and there is a thriving black market in this heavily controlled environment. It doesn't work!

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      Z 🇺🇸‏ @_Z__ Jun 15
      Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin

      A prison is not the equivalent of a society.

      9:36 PM - 15 Jun 2021
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        2. Paul‏ @netfire4 Jun 15
          Replying to @_Z__ @chesaboudin

          Why not? Seems like a society to me, maybe not a perfectly matched one to ours, but through this example we can know that vast increases in law enforcement in a community even as many as are in a jail and with killing any civil liberties, cannot effectively win the war on drugs.

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        3. Z 🇺🇸‏ @_Z__ Jun 15
          Replying to @netfire4 @chesaboudin

          And then you will also recognize that the population is entirely composed of alleged criminals and that the trade is also regulated by criminals, as it is outside of prison.

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