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Originally Posted by Agamemnon
Fair enough... not sure how that specifically impacts organized crime's hold on marijuana once it's legalized, and I still have doubts that this problem 'dominates New Jersey banking', but I don't know much about it.
Alcohol was illegal, and dominated by organized crime. Now it's legal, and dominated by Corporations & private brewers. It's tough for me to see why weed would be any different.
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True, but the problem being, if you legitimize it and manufacture it here, organized crime is going to source it cheaper and without quality control down south and smuggle it up here.
Thats a little different from prohibition which if I remember liquor was mainly manufactured in the States and Canada, when it ended the mob couldn't compete with the prices available from big business.
I think it would be different in the case of pot.