Yes, but people don't want guns as badly as drugs, nor do they need as many. It wouldn't be as lucrative. Also, guns enable far more crimes. Being able to arrest someone for possession of a gun rather than waiting until they commit a crime with it would probably reduce crime substantially. There are few reasons to carry a gun that don't involve murder or the threat of it.
Well hunting is a big deal in the United States. People will want their hunting rifles and hunting pistols, for all the crazy...er...adventurous, who hunt bear with pistols. Hunters will never want to give up their guns. Semi-automatics, and the such? I'm with you on that. There simply is no need for them in my opinion. People will argue that by making guns illegal only the bad guys will have them. I'm not saying I agree with them, but making guns illegal in the United States would be a huge hurdle to cross.
Well, yes. But legalizing drugs would stop money from being wasted on enforcement, which could be used to fund the clinics.
I'm all for legalizing marijuana, shrooms, and the sort. We would save a great deal in enforcement by legalizing marijuana that could be used to fund clinics
That doesn't seem very logical. Just because it's legal doesn't mean there would be no regulations on it, or that they'd be able to sell it exactly the way they always have. It would be easy to set the market up in such a way as to hurt the existing cartels, and benefit new businesses that market them.
I cede. You are probably right. Legalizing would probably hurt cartels.
Think about it... farmers would be able to grow it, it would probably be held to standards (possibly arbitrary ones) that the illegal marajuana wasn't held to, and end up costing far less than they wanted to sell it for.
And the reason we aren't paying for more resources for those afflicted by addiction, is because we're spending so much on largely ineffective enforcement programs.
Again, I'm all for legalizing bud. The quality of the product would go up, and fewer people would want to buy weed from south of the boarder. The best weed is hydroponically grown, and that is usually already grown in the US. We would save enforcement money and we would be able to spend money fighting pot to help those addicted by the big four.
If it didn't cost so much in resources to keep them illegal, I would agree with you. But it seems like people have a natural tendency to ignore the cost of enforcing a law, and only look at the benefits.
Also, the majority of drug money is made from marajuana and such. Not the big four. Let's just say that not enough people who get addicted to those live long enough for it to be consistently profitable for the drug dealers.
Pot makes a great deal of money, and so does enforcing it's illegality. It also isn't nearly as harmful as the big four (some people would argue with me and say it isn't at all harmful) If it is true that pot makes up the majority of drug money, and we spend so much to enforce its legal status, why would we legalize the big four if they are so small scale?
Also, heroin, crack, and meth addicts are
extremely profitable to dealers because of their addictive qualities. It is an unbelievably expensive habit. I've known people who would spend $400 a week on cocaine. People get their money in all sorts of ways, but few abusers are dealers. The dealers don't use because it's so addictive that they'd use a good deal of their product without making bank.
I'm not sure what we can do about the big four. Perhaps we could start off by legalizing marajuana, and do so in a way which would hurt the cartels.
Besides, think about our economy. Think about how much drug money is being pumped through it without tax. Even regular sales tax on it would yield a significant amount of money.
I'm all for legalizing marijuana, LSD, shrooms, E, and the such. I am against the legalization of heroin, meth, crack, and cocaine.
