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It's an idea whose time has come. Prohibition is a LOSE LOSE LOSE situation
Government loses due to lost taxes, potential for institutional corruption, money wasted on prohibition enforcement could go to other services or back to the people through tax cuts
People lose due to dangerous product for those addicted/those who choose to use, prison time, crime that prohibition generates
Producing countries lose because the high price creates drug lords with private armies and extensive corruption of local government institutions
Alcohol was prohibited, didn't work.
WF Buckley, Ron Paul, etc etc are right. Time to rethink this policy. It has a DEVASTATING effect on the global economy, has racist aftereffects, and is a HEALTH HAZARD.
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