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Re:Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry by ixacto on Thursday December 03, 2020 @08:47PM (#25298016)
In my option it [Drug Prohibition] is entirely futile and held in place by various special interests including the government and pharmaceutical companies. It would be much simpler if we allowed for the sale of every chemical that is non-weaponizeable to everyone.

This would remove a lot of people form the criminal justice system and get rid of the need for the DEA. Only problem is that the DEA is a job creator though.

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Re:Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry by freedomben on Thursday December 03, 2020 @11:38PM (#25299027)
> Only problem is that the DEA is a job creator though.

On the other hand those jobs include tearing families apart and jailing people for victimless crimes. I think I'd be ok losing those jobs.

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Re:Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry by ixacto on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:50PM (#25308590)
Totally agree but you are not a politician up for re-election in AZ/PA/MI or some purplish state. Suddenly you get rid of jobs that does not look good in these areas especially if you are a state level politician.

The same would happen if we get rid of commercial insurance companies which I'm also in favor of. All those admin staff, drug sales, insurance coders would be out of work and politicians would have to explain what happened.

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