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posted by DHS @ 2:43 PM
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1 Comments:
At July 13, 2009 5:46 PM ,
Phil said...
What an unfortunate waste of resources. Does anyone think that these actions have any effect on the supply of illegal drugs? Every bust just increases the profit incentive for other smugglers.
The sooner the United States moves from prohibitionist drug policy to regulatory drug policy, the sooner this black market we created will dry up, and the sooner our Coast Guard can get back to guarding the coast instead of trying to stop people from supplying the goods -- illegal though they may presently be -- that we demand.
Imagine if we still prohibited alcohol and had to waste our Coast Guard resources on chasing bootleggers. Prohibition caused more problems than it solved with alcohol 80 years ago, and it causes more problems than it solves with other drugs now.
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