| Re: The United States’ War on Drugs: An Effort in Missed Economic Growth
From my point of view, most of the problems in this country come down to economic problems. If, for example, our country could afford to give every citizen a million dollars a year, how many problems do you think would occur? Not many, and so that needs to be our overall goal. How do we reach this? Capitalize on high-profit, currently illegal markets.
The bottom line is, we will never stop the production and distribution of illegal narcotics or the sex trade. Human desire is just too great. By making these markets legal, it provides a number of benefits: increased safety, reduced street traffic/violence, open rehab programs, decreased spreading of diseases, increased tax base, etc. The list goes on and on. It seems foolish to ignore all the benefits with no possible way of stopping the illegal trade.
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