It would be nice to start having more mature public discourse about the possibility that the slew of violent crimes, robberies, gun-smuggling, disease-spreading, and life-shattering addiction related to drug use and distribution in this country are maybe, just maybe, in large part being caused by the prohibition of drugs, not prevented by it. If we really want to solve some problems we’ll create a legal economic sector for the currently illegal drug market, and in the process eliminate all the high-paying jobs that exist for the criminals that currently have a stranglehold on it. That’s a recession I could live with... and who knows, maybe since we won’t be so busy spending all our money on keeping people in prison, we’ll have some resources left over to tackle the crooks currently in control of the legal drug and health care providing market in America.
—Comment by Ben, Los Angeles
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