Umm...If cannabis was made legal, all the gangs currently making money from it would not simply go and get a job at B&Q instead. They would use thier smuggling, storage and distribution network for harder drugs instead and move the problem up a scale, surely?
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?,
Mon 2 Nov 2009, 12:34,
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I don't think that would create more use of harder drugs. Unless perhaps we tax the soft ones so much they go up in price.It's true that those people with a primary motivation of being nasty, who are interested in selling drugs as an illicit way to make money (rather than out of a wholesome interest in drugs, like cheesemongers have an interest in cheese), would still find ways to be nasty and make money illicitly - quite likely less useful ways - and it wouldn't make any difference to that. (Those with a primary motivation of selling drugs for its own sake would find themselves becoming respectable tradesmen.)
Pot smokers would be less likely to meet any bad guys, which is nice, but that's about as far as the argument goes.
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Mon 2 Nov 2009, 13:08,
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Pot smokers would be less likely to meet any bad guys, which is nice, but that's about as far as the argument goes.