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Originally Posted by Agamemnon
I guess I remain unconvinced as to why organized crime would still be involved. Are they involved in the production and distribution of alcohol in a major way? I'd wager 99% of alcohol in Canada is purchased legally, and taxed. I see no reason for marijuana, once legalized, to remain controlled by organized crime. I also don't see how it would be any more available to minors than it already is. I guarentee you every single Junior High in Calgary already has a problem with this. Lets legalize, tax, and then use the proceeds to educate the children. Right now as far as I can tell we just stick our heads in the sand and tell kids not to do it... a failed approach.
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I guess you and myself would have to agree to disagree.
I'm fine with legalizing it, but in terms of free enterprise how willing is organized crime going to be to give up that revenue stream.
They're either going to find a way to make it more potent, or cheaper then a government taxed version.
We could say that if the government manufactured it or contracted out manufacturing to free enterprise that they could do it cheap.
but organized crime also mass produces this stuff, wouldn't have to worry about packaging and quality control etc, and they would bring it in dirt cheap with lower labor and movement costs from south america for example.
they won't give up on a massive dollar revenue like that just because the government gets into the business.