Re:France rejects backdoor mandate
by makeitdouble on Friday March 21, 2025 @10:17PM
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> Why don't we just get in on the drug trade ourselves, undercut the dealers
That was tobacco, but they blew it by never going for alternatives nor providing healthier/better products. With the pharma knowledge we have now, we surely could have developed a legally acceptable drug with few enough downsides.
Otherwise, they are of course getting in on the drug trade, just not under the framework we'd want to:
https://www.brut.media/fr/articles/cocaine-11-policiers-juge...
But once it is legal, they can't use it to deal weapons anymore
Our state is already one of the biggest arms dealers on the planet, and, like all modern nation states, fundamentally a coercive protection racket (note that I don't actually have a problem with coercive protection rackets. You remember that scene in The Godfather where everyone is thanking Vito Corleone as he saunters through the street? That's me thanking the French welfare state for taking my taxes and giving me universal healthcare and environmental regulation).
Why don't we just get in on the drug trade ourselves, undercut the dealers and start a government monopoly like Sweden has with alcohol?