Mom-and-pop pot growers cut cartels’ profits

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of course there will be ways to avoid taxation. Like I said, there are ways to avoid the taxes on alcohol, too. No, it won't fix all of the state's problems - but it certainly won't hurt. And I'd rather see bad growers pursued by the IRS than by the DEA.

I've heard that there's a prescription drug - sativex? sativax? - that is basically refined pot that you can inhale as a spray rather than smoking (avoids lung damage) that's legal in Canada and may be legal in a decade or so in the U.S. I'd like to see that, too, for the people who have legitimate medical reasons to use pot (I'm guessing maybe 5%, if that, of current 'medical' prescriptions for pot are for legitimate medical reasons like AIDS or cancer).

There's a lot less demand for those things. The markets are much smaller. Protection rackets? That's called insurance. For organs, see below. Money laundering requires illegally-obtained money, and without illegal drugs, where's that come from?

Violence and fraud is where our justice system should be focusing its resources, not personal recreation that some disapprove of because it's not their kind of lifestyle. So if organized crime moves into those regimes, that's not a problem. It just creates a target-rich environment for the things that we all agree should be gotten rid of. There's consensus for criminalizing those. That's not the case with drugs.

Re organs:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/ ... 58,00.html

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/200 ... ple_o.html