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Re:Drug Traffickers Are Spoofing Border Drones by simonh on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @11:36AM (#10778633)
True but the effect is likely to be fairly small. It's probably better to compare legalization of most drugs to the end of prohibition. That saw a collapse in crime and incarceration rates back towards (although admittedly not all the way down to) pre-prohibition levels which only picked up again with the war on drugs.

If you don't trust that comparison, how about looking at the actual real world effects seen recently in Western countries such as Holland and Portugal that have tried this.

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Re:Drug Traffickers Are Spoofing Border Drones by DanBC on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @12:56PM (#10779176)
Yes, but it's still a problem.

UK customs agents seize about 1m cigarettes per day. There are about 10m smokers in the UK, so if they smoke about 20 a day that's about 200m cigarettes per day. 1m isn't much compared to that. But it's still there.

(But I do strongly support legalisation of drugs. I just think there's some stuff to be learnt from UK)

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