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Originally Posted by kestrelx
Keeping cannabis illegal is maintaining criminal gang control of something and thus fuelling that street gang culture and making it more glamorous to delinquents to become part of a gang and carry out criminal acts to take drugs. Causing more crime and more problems for the Police! By legalising cannabis that whole gang culture would collapse and I think in the long term less people would smoke it because it was no longer "cool" to be part of that culture.  |
There will always be an illegal gang control just as there is with alcohol and tobacco which is legal to buy - and even DVDs. If it were to be legalised I'm sure the government would milk the tax revenue it would bring in so I doubt there would be a significant difference in crime rates. The argument does not really hold.