Drug test for welfare in Florida

[mortdooley]

 I have no problem with legalizing drugs since you can find a Doctor to prescribe all kinds of mind altering drugs that are as bad or worse. Just make sure that the rest of us don't pay for it in higher costs. Legalizing drugs in this country would create a new problem, if you take the profit out, what source of revenue will the suppliers and dealers move to? When the Communists stopped funding Central American bandits they turned to kidnapping and I don't see dealers competing with the Arabs to manage convenience stores.

[tombogan03884]

Gangs of ethnic teens selling encyclopedias and vacuum cleaners ?  
Perhaps many would, as with the end of Prohibition, turn to legitimate business like Kennedy, Coors, and Busch.

[fightingquaker13]

Gangs of ethnic teens selling encyclopedias and vacuum cleaners ?  
Perhaps many would, as with the end of Prohibition, turn to legitimate business like Kennedy, Coors, and Busch.

Tom is right here. Miami Vice aside, most drug dealers are entrepreneurial blue collar guys. The Washington Post did a study a few years back on DC's drug dealers (via prison interviews). Most of them made less than $15K a year on their dealing and used it to support a low paying straight job. Those a bit higher up the food chain were still making around $50K or less.  These are guys that would cheerfully work a legal job if they could open the the local pot shop. Even if they couldn't, their source of income would be gone. Who wants to do a deal with a thug in an alley if all you need to do is go to your local package store? Here's proof. Look at the number of alcohol dealers shooting each other two years before prohibition, during prohibition and two years after prohibition. Any questions?
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