snyps said:
The market will determine the price. That's capitalism. Drug stores will be competitive. Let's assume your reasoning on inflated prices is correct. It won't change the supply and demand effect on pricing. Is it cheaper to buy drugs illegaly or legaly in Amsterdam? Sure if some one wants to lower their price and sell to a local street dealer they can. But at the very top of this chain are a bunch of business professionals. Do they want to sneak around and kill their way to profits or set up an LLC and use federal express.
Why? Why can't Columbians and Afghanies sell to the US? Why do you call the Columbian Gangs "illegal"?
Look at the way amsterdam handled their "heroin alley". They don't have a black market of any consequence. The US government will collect sales tax. Maybe decades from now they will create a BS safety/edu tax long after the black markets are vanguished. I just don't see where you are getting your opinion that a legal market isn't going to stamp out the illegal market. Do you have examples of this happening in history anywhere? |
Amsterdam still has a VERY big illegal drug trade.
Most drug cafes get at least some of their Marijuana illegally for example.
This got even bigger after Amsterdam instituted purity laws and banned stronger marijuana. (Again showing purity laws wouldn't work.)
and keep in mind Amsterdam doesn't even tax illegal drugs at all. Also this is freaking Marijuana, which has one of the lowest profit to production ratios out there.
And no... the free market wouldn't decide the prices. That's the point.
Unless you think we'll be walking around with about zero taxes on illegal drugs and selling Cocaine for $5-10 bucks for a pure gram. You comfortable with that?
Secondly, wasn't one of the big pluses of this supposed to be that it gets the money out of the hands of illegal gangs? As for the Breaking Bad crew.
They're dealing in Meth. Meth is a factory created drug that can be created with household items.
We aren't talking about something that's being provided outside the country for cheaper then it could ever be grown legally. Legalizing meth and not other hard drugs might work a bit, as it'd push people over to Meth, but the downside is... Meth is just the worst drug out there really.
Why can't Columbian gangs and Afghanni Gangs sell legally in the US? Uh, that'd be because they're giant illegal cartels that control parts of their country that the governments don't want them controlling.
It'd would be like if Amsterdam signed a deal TODAY to ship Heroin and Marijuana with the MS-13. (That's an illegal hispanic gang.)
