If, by "IT", you mean the illegal drug trade, then it's simple.
1) make drugs legal
2) charge a government tax on them
3) sell them from high street shops
4) use the same graphic adverts as for tobacco and alcohol to warn of health consequences of their use
The price will crash, drug-related crime will crash, many people will be "lost" to society, but they pretty much are anyway.
The government and Mexican/Colombian/Afghan farmers make a modest income (but only modest, so there won't be so MUCH drug farming). Drug Lords lose their power base.
It's very simple. You either try prohibition and war-on-drugs (which is proven not to work) or you bring recreational drugs under the same umbrella as alcohol and tobacco. Charge enough tax to cover the health and societal costs of drug use. Everybody wins...
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- Reality Intrudes on the Drug War
- National Geographic
- Prohibition NEVER works. It just makes sale more profitable. (n/t)
- It'll work. We just need a government that's serious about stopping it.
- re: It'll work. We just need a government that's serious about stopping it.
- Force should be used.
- Why? What is the reason for Drug Prohibition? None that I can see! (n/t)
- The same as not putting lead in cereal or arsnic in soft drinks.
- Why? What is the reason for Drug Prohibition? None that I can see! (n/t)
- Force should be used.
- Serious about stopping it?
- It's all messed up.
- Lee's against drugs? Crap, there's a reason to legalize them.
- re: It'll work. We just need a government that's serious about stopping it.
- It'll work. We just need a government that's serious about stopping it.