RE: Drug Policy
July 12, 2015 at 6:58 pm
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2015 at 6:59 pm by Dystopia.)
Does bathub gin, as a general rule, make people addicted and harm them significantly? How so? Are you addicted to alcohol? Maybe not (I'm guessing) - But if you were, don't you think you would prefer to buy a cheaper version even if it is lower in quality (Unless you're bloody rich)?
You are going the wrong way - It's not if people who already buy regulated products will start buying illegal ones, but the other way around - Why should people who buy illegal products start buying regulated ones? I don't know how many folks realize this but: First, I'm not arguing for prohibition and wars on drugs, I'm just saying fully legalizing (meaning that the State would sell drugs to people) heavy drugs is not as simple as it looks - Marijuana is not that expensive (I speak from experience) but heavy drugs, when sold illegally, cost a shitload of money - Drug dealers make profit, but they don't pay taxes, or import taxes, or anything like that - So it's not a big deal. Imagine all the taxes that already exist on heavy drugs - A pack of cigarettes where I live is already expensive as fuck, my parents, middle class people, are smoking illegal tobacco because they don't want to pay the government more money - Imagine, considering the price of manufacturing heavy drugs, import, etc (plus the fact there's supply and demand) + the taxes all over it.
The EU has a tax named literally "Special consumption tax" - Basically it affects every product that either is or may be harmful - This means that tobacco, alcohol, fossil fuels, drugs and any other product (maybe prostitution) that can endanger or hurt somethig or somebody has an extra heavy tax, not to mention there's already the import tax (in the EU) and the regular consumption tax every product must pay - Now if you account for all these taxes and obviously the cost of manufacturing heavy drugs, imagine how high the prince would be, and possibly a reason why any sane drug user should just go to the dealer who makes it cheaper.
You are going the wrong way - It's not if people who already buy regulated products will start buying illegal ones, but the other way around - Why should people who buy illegal products start buying regulated ones? I don't know how many folks realize this but: First, I'm not arguing for prohibition and wars on drugs, I'm just saying fully legalizing (meaning that the State would sell drugs to people) heavy drugs is not as simple as it looks - Marijuana is not that expensive (I speak from experience) but heavy drugs, when sold illegally, cost a shitload of money - Drug dealers make profit, but they don't pay taxes, or import taxes, or anything like that - So it's not a big deal. Imagine all the taxes that already exist on heavy drugs - A pack of cigarettes where I live is already expensive as fuck, my parents, middle class people, are smoking illegal tobacco because they don't want to pay the government more money - Imagine, considering the price of manufacturing heavy drugs, import, etc (plus the fact there's supply and demand) + the taxes all over it.
The EU has a tax named literally "Special consumption tax" - Basically it affects every product that either is or may be harmful - This means that tobacco, alcohol, fossil fuels, drugs and any other product (maybe prostitution) that can endanger or hurt somethig or somebody has an extra heavy tax, not to mention there's already the import tax (in the EU) and the regular consumption tax every product must pay - Now if you account for all these taxes and obviously the cost of manufacturing heavy drugs, imagine how high the prince would be, and possibly a reason why any sane drug user should just go to the dealer who makes it cheaper.
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