Ricky Williams chooses pot over football.

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The violence is a product of drugs' prohibition. To be a drug dealer, you have to be a criminal. Criminals are not good businessmen by nature. The only reason they make money is that the market... the black one... let's them charge exhorbitant prices for their products, and their business model includes theft and other crime as additional sources of income.

Why is it that we can regulate everything else BUT drugs?

Remember, we'll have over $60 Billion per year to spend on this little project, and a lot of ex-drug-warriors to draw upon for labor... and that's not even accounting for the economic effect of NOT wasting all that money prosecuting non-violent minor drug offenders, which will not only eliminate the costs of their arrests and incarceration but also put them back to work at McDonald's or in construction where they can avoid drug screens, which will increase the tax base by itself.

Most of the cost of illicit drugs is shipping & handling, due to the risk involved. Most "dealers" are small-timers that are only trying to offset the expense of their own drug use, and would gladly give it up. They're not the ones driving Lexi and living large. If you're right, and the big wigs try to continue the black market (even IF they can compete with legitimate enterprise, which is doubtful,) they will be easy to catch. We'll have narrowed the field of criminals to watch over extensively.