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" Just because alcohol has destroyed many lives, doesn’t mean we’re obligated to expand the buffet. The canard about undermining the cartels and the mobs is naive. Is the mob more broke than before legalized gambling? "

a false comparison, since decriminalization destroys the "mobs'" monopoly with the simple act of dropping a seed into the ground without interference

it is the drug war and US drug war policy alone that permits drug gangs to profit from this weed

i'm glad you cite the dangers of alcohol, if we were "controlling substances" based on their threat to health and society, shouldn't tobacco and alcohol both be prohibited first?

a false comparison, since decriminalization destroys the "mobs'" monopoly with the simple act of dropping a seed into the ground without interference

Oh yes, yes!
All those drug kingpins in south america would of course all of a sudden stop importing their product if the US Gov't invalidated drug laws and said everything is legal!
Of course there would be no ongoing turf wars between drug organizations and gangs. There would be no ongoing wars over importation routes.
And most of all?
If the US Gov't began regulating drugs instead of enforcing drug laws all the drug importers would of course say:
"Fudge! Why of course we'll stop using our established super-cheap clandestine importing & selling methods and just start paying ridiculously high import taxes and sales taxes to the US Gov't!"
Oh yes! There would be peace, love, and utopia, and there would be no drug violence ever again and all the giant multi-billion dollar drug enterprises in other countries would respect the US laws all of a sudden and society would become perfect.
We know this because heroin and cocaine and all the illegal pills are EXACTLY like alcohol and prohibition. It's identical. And it would just work because it's worked in all those other countries that did this and they are now perfect utopias.

What part of “Don’t add to the array of poisons” didn’t you understand?

those wanting to “drop a seed into the ground” already do so.

The mobs will stay in the drug biz!
Ever hear the line “I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse.”?