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Originally Posted by n0nsensical
If it has negative effects as you seem to imply, it's only because prohibition has forced trade into a black market.
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Imply? I'm pretty sure there are hundreds of thousands of people held hostage on land that would be put to better use as farmland, forced to grow coca and poppies, and made into slaves just so someone in the US, Canada or the Netherlands can get a cheap high. Nothing implied about it.
It's funny. The same people who wouldn't buy a shirt that says "made in Burma" on it for fear it was made in a sweatshop are happy to drop hundreds on coke, heroin or other drugs grown by people who live in worse conditions than many sweatshops, because they feel entitled to use drugs.
I don't blame some dumbass kid who doesn't know any better, some guy on the Rez or Hood whose life is so limited and screwed up that he would neither know nor care about such moral questions. I do think that educated people - effectively, the majority of people posting on boards like this - would know and care a bit, rather than relying on "but dude, if it was legal it'd all be cool" instead of thinking about the vast criminal activity and cycles of poverty this sustains.