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Originally Posted by Dion
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But of course, the black market exists in the first place because of the historical prohibition in the US for the past 80 years. You can't erase that in a short period of time and it is unrealistic to expect all the negative effects from 80 years of prohibition to just disappear over night after legalization. There are people who depend on the black market for revenue and won't give it up easily.
It will probably take a whole generation before the effectiveness can be judged fairly.