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Wednesday, 06/05/2013 11:46:08 AM

Wednesday, June 05, 2013 11:46:08 AM

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“Taxing legal production would eliminate the advantage that violent criminals have in the current marketplace. Just as gangsters were largely driven out of the alcohol market after the end of prohibition, violent drug gangs would be driven out of a decriminalized drug market. Since the major costs of the drug war are the costs of the crime associated with drug trafficking, the costs to society would be greatly reduced even if overall drug consumption increased somewhat.”
Gary BeckerNobel Prize-Winning Economist & Professor at University of Chicago