Another Massive Pot Growing Operation Found in Dallas, TX

[HombrePequeno]

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Originally posted by: HombrePequeno

Originally posted by: Nebor

Originally posted by: K1052
Jesus, that's a lot of weed. Though for every find like this dozens other are never located.

Even the police know the total futility of the drug war. I used to work for a police agency that had just seized a tractor trailer full of weed, one narc cop I talked to just shrugged and said it made almost zero difference.

I've worked with the DEA before. It's estimate that interdiction stops only 10% of illegal drugs from reaching the market.

But just beacuse you can't catch every killer doesn't mean you shouldn't catch any.

Drug users are not the same as murderers. All this is doing is helping to keep the price of drugs high which makes it very lucrative for the producers.

Except for that producer that got caught? And those other producers who are working to avoid being caught?

No, no....This doesn't make economic sense at all

Mind you, I'm quite indifferent to the legalization of marijuana. There's just a serious break in logic in your thinking.

Well for highly addictive drugs like say heroin, reducing the supply severely increases the price which makes it extremely lucrative for producers. Yes, some of them do get caught and there are risks but that doesn't mean the producers that didn't get caught aren't raking in the dough.

And yes, drug legalization does make economic sense which is why *gasp* the majority of economists support it. Without drugs being illegal, police could go after actual crimes and money could be directed from prisons which are overflowing with drug users and producers to rehab clinics which actually have a success rate in curing people of addiction. The cost of keeping a prisoner is roughly $40,000/yr whereas rehab is a fraction of that.

But no, you're right it makes no economic sense whatsoever.