July 12, 2019

So , despite earnest entreaties , some folks still can’t grasp basic economic fundamentals that would and do make ” Legalize and tax ” schemes with respect to drugs a financial and sociological impossibility.

Similarly , with philosophical constructs and hypotheticals , usually the easiest way to watch them crumble and fall on their metaphorical ass , is to grant the recockulous premise.

Thusly :

Okay , all drugs are legalized. You’re going to tax them and put the drug cartels out of business. You imagine …

So , Poindexter , let us examine your scheme.
1a ) Where do coca leaves come from , to make cocaine ?
2a ) Who controls that real estate , for miles and miles ?
3a ) Who will set the price for which they’ll deliver you the product , to sell in the U.S. ?
4a ) Who will control all distribution of same to you ?

1b ) Same set of questions , for opium.

1c ) Same set of questions , for marijuana.

So , Pablo Escobar being out of the equation now , when his successor , Pablo Hersheybar , Lord of Bolivian Marching Powder , determines he will only sell you coca leaves or processed cocaine at 20 times the current street price , WTF are you going to do about that ?
[ You’re going to eat shit. ]

RR makes several good points ( All arriving at the same ‘ eat shit ‘ summation ! ) … But I particularly like this point … Comparing it to something I’ve been pissed about for decades !!! … And the one’s who REALLY profit from him have no real justification for for such ludicrous wealth other than ‘ random geographical luck ‘…

Some old enough may recall that when they got tired of Western exploitation , oil producing countries got together and jacked up the price of their oil to the West.

So , econ geniusii , WTF are you going to do when the drug countries resolve to form the Drug Origin Producing and Exporting Countries organization , and DOPEC tells you the new street price for heroin and cocaine is now 50 times what it was last year , because they don’t like gringos and infidels ?
[ You’re going to eat a big shit sandwich, at a 5000% mark-up. ]

And then , after bleeding you dry financially for a few years and a few trillion dollars , they then decide to give their shit away by the metric fuckton virtually free , just to give your tottering drug-addled country a push into the shitter of history ?
[ You’re going to choke on shit. ]

Historical note : Alcohol was legalized when Prohibition was repealed in 1933.
So tell the class in what year moonshining stopped in the U.S. … ?