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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (782418)	4/28/2014 3:56:42 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By TimF Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577024

>> but in reality, it just gets the government much more involved You can't get much more involved than breaking in an innocent person's house and shooting them dead in the name of drug enforcement. Something that happens with far more frequency than most of us would care to admit.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (782418)	4/28/2014 4:31:20 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Recommended By one_less Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577024

If a certain vice doesn't need regulation, it didn't need to be illegal in the first place. Most vices don't need to be illegal in the first place. That doesn't necessarily mean they aren't made illegal. Also I said "heavily regulated" not just "regulated". If regulation places a high burden on some industry in some cases it will just eliminate the industry, in others it will create a black market. With most vices it will create a black market. You can have regulation like "no sales to kids", maybe a reasonable level of taxes, but get too strong on either and you lose some to most of the benefits of legalization.