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From: proto@panix.com
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Brother Nate wrote:
> Scenario: Ok, suppose the economic recovery in North America is
> much slower than experts project. Desperate for tax revenue, state
> governments decriminalize recreational drugs. As a result budgets
> get balanced, social services get funded, casual recreational use
> really doesn't increase all that much, the vast majority of current
> drug criminals just fade back into the mainstream economy as tax-
> paying citizens, etc. It isn't utopia, but it's basically the best
> case
> scenario for the legalization argument.
>
> At the same time the artificially-high prices of black market drugs
> which had been driven by their illegality then fall dramatically,
> depriving several large criminal enterprises of their chief source of
> revenue. As many as 500,000 people who are now estimated to
> be involved in just the Mexican cartels are out of a job. And even
> more desperate people from even more violent and unprincipled
> groups are in the same boat. They can't make money off of drugs
> to fund their FARC/Taliban/etc regional conflicts.
>
> What's the next thing they're likely to turn to in order to carry on
> their paramilitary struggles? Not trying to be a smart-ass here;
> I'm honestly open to the idea of decriminalization of at least some
> drugs. I'm just fishing around for ideas about how we cope with
> literally hundreds of thousands of heavily-armed ruthless gangsters
> from places where drug traffic has been their only career path.
>
> --
> Brother Nate
> bronate@gmail.com
> Moral Compass
They might go into gambling. But, it's if they go in for crimes with
actual victims it becomes easier to find them and destroy their
organizations.
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