[vin-one]

will choke off illegal profits and allow the abusers to be treated. "

The biggest problem here is that when drugs are legalized what will happen to all those
drug runners? Will they go out and get real jobs, I think that upfront, they will be hurting.
Then probably crime rates may rise, they have to keep up the high life style
No profit no money,
so we are proposing putting drug dealers in the unemployment lines,

[Kerberos]

"so we are proposing putting drug dealers in the unemployment lines, "

No what we are proposing, or at least what I am proposing, is putting them out of business. What happens to them after that is their problem. As far as them committing violent crime, they are already committing violent crime. We’re just helping to keep them doing such with our illogical drug policies.

There is data somewhere, but I can't recall right now that shows after prohibition ended violent crime went down. The same thing would happen if we ended the war on drugs if for no other reason than that police officers could be using their time to apprehend violent offenders as opposed to chasing pot users.