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Re:Legalising marijuana: the view from Mexico by jacques_chester on Saturday November 10, 2012 @02:52AM (#4766207)
You might have heard the "Bootleggers and Baptists" phenomenon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists

Because of the massive profitability of illegal goods, there's a strong incentive to prevent them becoming legal again.

The weird mutually-fractal nature of states and organised crime is discussed very well here -- http://skepticlawyer.com.au/2012/11/08/coercive-competition/ -- where I picked up the Bootlegger and Baptist reference.

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Re:Legalising marijuana: the view from Mexico by euroclydon on Saturday November 10, 2012 @09:47AM (#4766747)
Neil Stephenson went a step further in The Baroque Cycle and had them be the same person, Drake Waterhouse.
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