Quote:There are many problems to solving the "ultimate problem", that being drug addiction/abuse.  Let's look at one of the problems that would need to be solved.  Price and taxation.

 

No matter what, there will always be an "underground" for narcotics.  Let's take crack as an example.  Let's say that on the street right now a gram of crack costs $10.  You sell it legally for $10 and tax it, it will still be cheaper to buy it on the street than it would be to buy it legitimately.  You could lower the price a bit, but the underground is still going to undercut the price.  Pretty soon the price gets low enough to where the tax that it brings in isn't enough to really fund the legal sale of it.

 

I would argue that the profit margins would decrease by so much that they would look to other means of income. The legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington have already seen hits to the black market for the same. It's not like CBP would just ignore imports for restricted items (which drugs would be). There would still be a risk to moving product.

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