They should be legalized. Prohibition should end.
My theories of social cost are BS in the face of the real social and financial cost of dealing with this as a criminal issue.
No one gets in gunfights with the police over illegal liquor anymore, right? Drunks are drunks and we deal with them...
Many drug addicts will still become criminals if it's legal, obviously...hard to work if you're an addict and an addict needs money...but putting someone in jail for robbery is better than doing it for possession or use of drugs.
MD
PS Yes, VB, you were right. I don't think it's a good solution, but a "least-bad" way to deal with it, as The Economist so notably noted.
My theories of social cost are BS in the face of the real social and financial cost of dealing with this as a criminal issue.
No one gets in gunfights with the police over illegal liquor anymore, right? Drunks are drunks and we deal with them...
Many drug addicts will still become criminals if it's legal, obviously...hard to work if you're an addict and an addict needs money...but putting someone in jail for robbery is better than doing it for possession or use of drugs.
MD
PS Yes, VB, you were right. I don't think it's a good solution, but a "least-bad" way to deal with it, as The Economist so notably noted.