Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Rob Schmitt: This is who attacked Paul Pelosi" video.
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Drug laws are messed-up. But nobody's seriously looked at how legalization, regulation and taxation would be sensibly implemented. Under the current, progressive-led push, the elephant in the room is they still haven't provided a LEGAL means of obtaining those drugs, so that all of the "decriminalized" drugs are sold on the street by criminals, via drug cartels. Legalization, done properly, would cut the legs out from under the drug cartels. They'd have to turn to something else, the same way they pivoted to opiates after alcohol prohibition was finally ended.
Illegal drugs are no different from alcohol, except that they're illegal. We KNOW that alcohol causes harm, but we decided that harm was less than the harm caused by ongoing war between more and more militarized/violent law enforcement and more and more militarized/violent organized crime organizations. Street shootings between LEO and gangsters and between gangsters was the obvious result of prohibition, but everyone - right AND left - refuse to see the obvious.
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