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Re:Colorado Pot Tax Proving More Lucrative Than Expected by yardie on Sunday February 23, 2014 @09:26AM (#7285966)
> I think the concern was that we're just replacing illegal cartels with legal cartels.

Just like how legalised gambling just made it legal for the mobs to run casinos?

Except that's not what happened. Investors came in, bringing real managers, real security, and real regulation. They turned the seedy, Las Vegas strip into Disneyland. And those old mob run casinos, you'll find their demolition videos on youtube.

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Re:Colorado Pot Tax Proving More Lucrative Than Expected by glesica on Sunday February 23, 2014 @05:35PM (#7287959)
I didn't say the methods used by the new cartels had to be identical to those used by the old. I also never said anything about criminals. You can have a perfectly law-abiding, non-violent cartel that is, nonetheless, bad for society.
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