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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
If we made them legal, healthcare would bog down big time for all the drug use by idiots in this country.
I will agree to make medical marijuana legal in all states and that would cut down a lot of the drug traffic. But the US can close the Mexican border and can patrol for submarines and boats effectively. They would figure out how to make it here and then some government officials would start to do something about it. But Mexico would have a near impossible time trying to export to the US. That would put them out of business.
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While I personally am unsure that legalizing all drugs is a good thing, one argument for it is that it will actually cost us less even with the increase in junkies we are likely to see. The thought is that the billions and billions we spend fighting an ineffective drug war could be used for eduction and rehab. We could also sell and tax those drugs and make a lot of money that way. The cost of this education, prevention and treatment would only be a small percentage of what we would save by no longer fighting the drug war.
Shutting down the border is a good thing, but it will do nothing to stop the drugs from coming into the US. Read a book called Killing Pablo. It is about the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar. At the height of his power he had a couple of 747 planes that were gutted and filled fully with coke that he flew into the US. If one got caught, he didn't care because the other six got through.
So long as there is a demand for it there will be people who find a way to supply it.