(November 10, 2010 at 7:06 pm)Lethe Wrote: It would be wise to legalize and regulate, as users are going to keep on using regardless, might as well make a profit. That would be my line of reasoning. The problem I've found with this though is excessive taxation. Less and less of the people I know are actually buying 'American' for their cigarettes, still others buy out of state, it's weird having tobacco go underground like this. But maybe it's just a local thing.
Fair point. But even with taxes, if drugs were legally produced on a mass scale and didn't go through tens of different people (growers, shippers, traffickers, distributors, country dealer, city dealer, area dealer etc) all adding expense to end product, governments and companies could easily under price the illegal trade and make it cheaper for the end users which would also cut petty drug related crimes such as burglary and muggings.
