Re:The Economics of the American Prison System
by dragonwriter on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @07:23PM
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> The skills required to run a legal drugs business are almost entirely different to those required to run an illegal drugs business.
Which, incidentally, doesn't stop at the lower-level employees but goes the whole way to the top, and is one reason it is quite likely that the "newly legal mary jane barons" won't be the same as the pre-legalization illegal barons, they'll be existing ag/pharma megacorps, who are set up to do what a legal business in the field will need to do (including already being plugged in with the applicable regulatory bodies.)
Which, incidentally, doesn't stop at the lower-level employees but goes the whole way to the top, and is one reason it is quite likely that the "newly legal mary jane barons" won't be the same as the pre-legalization illegal barons, they'll be existing ag/pharma megacorps, who are set up to do what a legal business in the field will need to do (including already being plugged in with the applicable regulatory bodies.)