Reply #40: You talk as if though, [View All]

[Ariana Celeste]

drug dealers would actually be able to make money selling drugs.

The government could easily undercut them, selling the drugs (regulated) for a LOT less money, than what is worth the risk for your regular drug dealer, or any drug dealer.

Rose colored glasses my ass, dude. How many people do you see selling alcohol illegally? Where's the huge profits in illegally selling alcohol? There USED to be a prohobition on alcohol. And people USED to make money selling it. I have yet to meet anyone who sells alcohol illegally.

Did you know, that teenagers have faster, cheaper access to illegal drugs, than they do cigarettes or alcohol?

Legalizing and regulating WILL get dirty drugs off the streets. Because people would NOT make any profits selling drugs anymore. The government would not be selling cocaine cut with various medications that happen to turn out the same color, and they would also be selling drugs at certain doses, rather than people having to play a guessing game and therefore accidently OD'ing at times.

I am so sick of the poverty argument. Not everyone who does drugs is poor, example, Willie Nelson, Snoop Dogg, Hunter S Thompson, Nick Nolte, Sigmund Freud was a cocaine addict ;).

Obviously, friend, you have no idea how diverse the drug culture is. And you don't need to be a smart ass to make your point. No, I am not psychic. I understand the simple idea of supply and demand, and why it is that dealers would no longer make profits. I am immersed in the drug culture, and I understand it for what it IS, not what DARE or the media tells me.