Markets operate on profits so a free market solution couldn’t take all of the profit. There may be other forms of control over the trade that could work.
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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As a taxpayer, how do you propose not multiplying the devastation the alcohol industry model has wrought on society?
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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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