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Originally Posted by Super-Rye
It's hard to do without imposing on someone's rights as a human. Honestly the best way to deal with gangs is to take away the things that give them funding. The government starts regulating drugs and prostitution and what funds the gangs? Bake sales?
It's not ideal but if the people are going to sit there and bitch about drugs and stuff and push it all underground, prepare to deal with the gang violence that comes with it.
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You might get flamed for this opinion, but you're certainly not out to lunch.
In BC at least, and I would imagine the same applies in Alberta, a huge portion of gang funding comes from marijuana grow ops. Marijuana is much harder to grow, with much stiffer penalties, south of the border. This leads to American gangs (or cross-border gangs) trading hard drugs (cocaine and heroin) as well as guns for Canadian bud. Legalizing and regulating marijuana would go a good way to undercutting the funding of Canadian criminal organizations, and limit the flow (although driving up the value) of drugs like cocaine and heroin in Canada. Those are the drugs we really need to worry about from a social standpoint.
As for meth... well... that would likely become a boom industry if the above were to happen. How that would play out is harder to envision.