Originally Posted by
splat
Yes, so then the problem isn't the illegal thing, it's the money around it. The fact that it is illegal makes it an exclusively criminal thing. There are not cigarette smuggling rings or gangs based around lettuce crops or soda mobs. If you make marijuana readily available, it will not be smuggled by criminals any more than napkins. Legalizing marijuana would mean there was just one less thing that was illegal that they have to sell. It would really be quite a blow to organized crime, since they would have to rely more on the less common harder drugs.