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Originally Posted by deepcreek
Legalize drugs and it would fade over night.
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That is not the Dutch experience.
Illicit drug markets do have some interesting economic characteristics, including a demand curve that can rise with increased cost that is generally associated with the effort at prohibition.
We have had legalized alcohol for a very long time, but I still step over some side characters who built their lives around it. That does not mean that prohibiting that well established facet of our culture would be the better policy; we should take from it that simply legalizing a new class of harmful but merely recreational pharmaceuticals will not improve that culture.
As Connecticut trooper suggested, we are not faced with any easy solutions, full legalization included.