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As a former marijuana “bootlegger”😂 from back in the days of illegality (at least in my state, and the feds are coming around slowly but surely)…. NO. I got hood rich slinging that shit, lmao, the market is BOOMING. I didn’t sell drugs (weed as “drugs”…lmao), I made them available. They sold themselves, haha.
I got better per-unit revenue than the dispensaries do now, BECAUSE it was illegal. And because the UMass football team wasn’t smart enough to pool their money and buy in bulk, they kept hitting me up for dubs. “We know you got a brick but sell ‘em 20s til they tired” - Memphis Bleek😝
It was over a decade between getting out of the game and weed being legalized, but if I was still selling at that time, I figure I’d have been knocked out of business. I guess it would be tax free, but that’s what they REALLY come after you for, they don’t care about drugs, lmao. But I couldn’t compete with the variety and specialization of a dispensary, not without getting to the point where I might as well start my own dispensary.
But the dispensaries have the same traffic as liquor stores now. Every time I go, I’m always surprised by someone I see there who doesn’t look like someone I’d expect to be a stoner, but now the government told them it was ok, so now they’ve done a 180 on it😂
I’m hearing stuff about mushrooms and everyone “micro-dosing” now. It’s not available where I’m at yet, but I can see that catching on too, once societal permission has been granted. But again, there was a market for that when I was younger and more plugged in to suppliers.
I think some people in life are rule-followers and their opinions are heavily influenced by what the powers that be tell them make them a “good citizen.” Those folks will be the last ones on board and won’t move until they’re told they can. But lots of people don’t give a fuck and will get what they want by hook or crook, lmao.
I was taking penitentiary chances while I was in college, I wanted free weed, extra money I couldn’t get working part time, social clout, and girls, lmao, it was pretty simple. And the customers wanted to get stoned, as college kids often do. So I just facilitated that process for a finder’s fee, haha. Even then, I had a couple of older customers I was a little sketched out about, but I knew the references were rock solid, and I was like “damn, you blaze, bro?”😂
The vices will be there. Making them available will be profitable, because humans spend an unreasonable amount on what anything that amounts to recreation or entertainment, especially something addictive. Prohibition may curb the number of customers, the people afraid of getting in trouble or being ostracized by some group may not partake, but the rest of us will, haha. So all you really do is help make it more profitable to do it in an unregulated fashion, so why not regulate it and clean up the process for all involved?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
The Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) to the United States Constitution established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States. The amendment was proposed by Congress on December 18, 1917, and ratified by the requisite number of states on January 16, 1919. The Eighteenth Amendment was repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment on December 5, 1933—the only constitutional amendment in American history to be repealed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-first_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
The Twenty-first Amendment (Amendment XXI) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide prohibition on alcohol. The Twenty-first Amendment was proposed by the 72nd Congress on February 20, 1933, and was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 5, 1933. It is unique among the 27 amendments of the U. S. Constitution for being the only one to repeal a prior amendment, as well as being the only amendment to have been ratified by state ratifying conventions.
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It's sort of a cornerstone of democracy to accept that "anything is legal if you go through the right channels." And then have the contours of those channels determined collectively by the people. Prohibition moves the decisions on what those channels should look like to criminals and law enforcement - often working together (which is another way of saying two groups of criminals) and passes it off as a favor to us normal people by telling us we don't have to be responsible for the decision on how to allow people to do a thing we don't think they should be doing in the first place, because we are too stupid to consider the possibility that we are wrong about them not doing the thing.
It is hard to say on the one hand fewer people can afford to start down the route of addiction.
On the other hand fewer people who become addicted are known to be addicted and get any help controlling the same. We for example have a better idea whom is an alcoholic and can put pressure to control the same.
Still that is not true of every culture, native Americans with little to no historic exposure to alcohol deal very poorly with it even today 100+ years since it became available.
This suggest a biological adaptation required to deal with certant additive things or at least a cultural adaptation that said native American tribes have yet to import from the west.
All attempts at prohibition have failed. The most noticeable is the Prohibition of alchohol in the USA that started in 1920 with the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution. It led to a huge black market and the creation of organized crime organizations, some of which still exist today. Recognizing it was a failure, the 21st Amendment in 1933 repealed Prohibition.
Of course it works. Once you realize the point is NOT to actually end the production, distribution and use of a given thing, that fact becomes clear. Prohibition is a tool used to marginalize otherwise law abiding citizens by inflating crime statistics and making everyone who has an association with the thing a brigand. They’re allowed to put thousands of otherwise good people in prison, and don’t forget, deny them their voting privilege.
You're comparing drugs where people get addicted to it and have a need for it that is more important to them than anything else. To guns where societies who have less guns are safer and happier and people have no inherent need for guns. The only time people feel a need for guns is when other people with guns around them are shooting around. And this doesn't happen in countries without guns.
To some degree yes, some things should be illegal especially drugs. Making it legal does not work, it makes the illegal dealers more violent and more forceful to make their living. And those drugs will just be taxed anyway, making it cheaper to buy them illegally.
yes it "works" by limiting. similarly prohibit abortion would save some human lives. if punish clinic staff as trump said.
Cut off supply, and prices increase a lot as does demand. Basic economics.
It doesn’t. But there should still be criminal penalties for drug dealing regardless
It's never worked and never will.
Lmao no
Obviously not
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