How can you say that making a product illegal is the only thing that causes the black market to appear when there's a massive black market for cigarettes even though they are legal? One of the most commonly used arguments in favour of legalizing marijuana is saying that it will be very heavily taxed - but if it will be taxed at all, illegal producers and distributors will prefer to continue selling it illegally instead of losing 20% or 30% (or more? currently in the US 50% of the price of a pack of cigarettes is taxes) of their profit to the government - and many if not most consumers will prefer to buy the cheaper stuff too.
- of dru's being.:
- @ kizzman
Black markets won't just magically disappear, no. But if we hadn't created them by making the product illegal in the first place, we wouldn't have to worry about cleaning that shit up, which is mainly the point I was trying to make.
July 4th, 2012 at 09:22am