>>>>>Apparently...hahaha. I suppose that's just another reason why I think it should just be 100% legal - if nothing else it would keep some of the money involved out of the hands of criminals.
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>>>>Probably all of it. Anyone can grow it. It's one of the few things where it's nearly impossible to put a meter and charge for the flow. It just can't be centralized.
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>>>I disagree. We learned during the time booze was illegal in this country what happens....it made Al Capone one if the richest men in the world and the mafia very powerful. Now sure - you can still buy illegal booze and even make your own - but very few people do that. I believe the same would be true for pot.
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>>But there's no crime syndicate producing booze in the woods and selling it in secret places, is there?
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>Not anymore because they made booze legal - which is my whole point. Right now there are a huge number of murders everyday in Mexico because of the illegal drug trade. If you make it legal - then these murdering drug dealers are suddenly out of business.
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>>If anyone can, doesn't mean everyone will. But it breaks the monopoly. Supply is local, there's no network of distributors.
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>There is no legal network of distributors - but I assure you there is a network (known as "cartels" in this biz)

Ah, I see where we agree but speak so that we sound like we don't. I was speaking hypothetically, "if weed was legal, then {stuff in present tense}...". My point is that weed is as democratic as booze - anyone can grow it, and there's very little chance that, once taken out of the cartels' hands, it would grow into a megacorporation.

Which is exactly why it won't be legalized. There already is a megacorporation which can lobby for status quo indefinitely.