Who profits from keeping marijuana, opium, and coca illegal?
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MrNatural Abstractor of the Quintessence
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In theory, society in general profits by not having to assume the spin-off health care costs that society would be forced to pay if use was widespread. For example, everybody in the US ends up paying for cancer caused by cigarettes. They pay through higher insurance premiums, higher health care costs, lost efficiency in the workplace, etc. In America, in theory, the same thing would happen to the economy if more drugs were leaglised.
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Well, the alcohol companies avoid competition from other substances, and there's a whole network of dealers and distributors for whom no profit could be made if these drugs were legal. But I don't think money is the major causal condition for our problems with illegal drugs: making the drugs illegal was well-intentioned, I think... but it also seems you can make a case for that the cost of the "war on drugs" isn't justified. The cost is terrible, not only in our own country but in countries which serve as the pipeline, e.g. South American nations and Mexico. Mexico in particular is paying a terrible price for our war on drugs, as the level of violence between the cartels and the government indicates. I would probably favor getting rid of this war: keep the drugs illegal, but switch to focusing on treatment and dispense with the overly harsh sentences for possession and the excessive investment in crushing the trade. I don't think we'll ever get rid of the conditions which cause people to use, it's just something that needs to be managed sensibly: resist, but don't fight so hard that the cost is greater than the benefit.
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Cocaine will alter the chemistry of your brain. I think it is good it is illegal. Marijuana what a joke this stuff is illegal. I don't know enough about opium. I think the other guy is right about alcohol companies profiting from them being illegal.
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The Fed and State governments... btw Obama wants to INCREASE spending on the "War on Drugs"..
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I am sure that besides previous answers the dealers would make less money if it were legal,,
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Drug dealers
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The Government, Federal, State and Local. If they leagalize drugs, numerous jobs would be lost, along with a tax base. Also big corporations would loose big time. Private corportations own many of the jails in this country. Over 70% of these jails are filled with nonviolent drug ofenders. The government gets paid on both sides of the coin.
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Producers, transporters, dealers and the law enforcement people.
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