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alcohol doesn't add an incredible criminal element of drug dealers, drug trafficers, and the killings and overall crime and degredation to society that they add.

I take it that you have never stumbled on a moonshiner's still in the back country. You might have a different opinion if you had that experience.

It's like these morons have never heard of Al Capone.

Al Capone is dead and alcohol is legal. What’s your point?

I don't know what his point is, but illegal drugs are illegal because we made them illegal. People commit other crimes to get illegal drugs because making them illegal pushes the price way up. Alcoholics can buy a bottle of Thunderbird for very little money. It also creates a whole market that can, by definition, be served only by criminals.

Legalizing what are now illegal drugs would cut a lot of crime out of the drug business. Seagrams could sell weed. Legal cocaine or heroin would be cheap, and not sold by thugs on the street corner. There would not be drug houses were they sell illegal meth. Exactly as happened when prohibition was repealed. It put the mob out of the liquor smuggling business.