Eli5 how decriminalization of drugs lowers rates
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The term “drugs” is very broad, and few are in favor of decriminalizing all of them.
When things are decriminalized, like inter-racial marriage, it gives police the opportunity to fight actual crime, like robbery. It also gives people in the business access to law enforcement and the courts to resolve their differences, so they don’t all need guns to handle disputes. All these things reduce crime and encourage civil behavior by all.
Legalization of pot has another advantage. Pot is a plant, and modern agribusiness can produce ginormous amounts of plant with extremely high quality and consistency. It’s one thing for a Mexican pot cartel to compete with a criminal pot enterprise operating in secret; that’s relatively fair “criminal vs criminal” competition. Putting the pot cartel up against state-legal pot growers makes the cartel’s job harder, but federal legalization would put the cartel up against Archer Daniels Midland and Phillip Morris. Those giants of agriculture have driven the cost of plant matter in the US to all time lows.
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