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Should Marijuana Be Legalized?

pro_pot: On anti_pot's number one: The prohibition on drugs causes crime. Ostrowski, political analyst of the Cato Institute (from James' "Thinking About Drug
Legalization"), states that drug laws greatly increase
the price of illegal drugs, often forcing users to steal
to get the money to obtain them. Although difficult to
estimate, the black market prices of heroin and cocaine
> appear to be many times greater than their
> pharmaceutical prices. For example, a hospital-dispensed
> dose of morphine (a drug from which heroin is relatively
> easily derived) costs only pennies; legal cocaine costs
> about a dollar per ounce. It is frequently estimated
> that a good percentage of all property crime in the
> United States is committed by drug users so that they
> can maintain their habits. That amounts to about four
> million crimes per year and billions of dollars in......


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