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Old 11-07-2012, 01:56 PM   #68
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Originally Posted by wookster View Post
I see what your saying, I think I saw that program as well, but I really think that since marijuana and "organized crime" are so intertwined that even if you make it legal the money will still flow into their pockets. Your basically just putting up a "front" for them to legalize part of their operation. Because like you mentioned, it is lucrative, they will still want a "piece of the action". but since their profit margin for selling it legally will be much lower, they are still going to indulge in other activities to make keep their profits higher.

Maybe Im completely off base, maybe all the drug dealers in the country will just pick up and become honest businessmen overnight and that will be that.
most of the pot comes from individuals growing pot in their basement. Something like 1/100 hundred houses growing in BC. Make it legal and that goes completely belly up, the large majority of growers would no longer make any money from narcotics sales at all. The pcp, meth, crack, cocaine and heroin dealer is the minority, so much so that I've never even seen one. Most dealers sell pot only. If it were on a store shelf that 20k a year would now be in the economy instead of under a mattress or wherever they hide it.
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