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mk  ·  4569 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Drugs, prison, etc.
It seems strange that we should have to choose between criminalization or capitalization of drugs. We need to find better ways to keep the market from driving a service into something we don't want. Once there is legal money in it, a slow creep will lead to a powerful and consolidated industry, like private prisons themselves.

My knee-jerk reaction has long been legalization, but I could see a dark future there, and not because people would abuse drugs more. The dealers would not only be better organized, but they'd have lobbyists.