Price. The legalisation of MJ in Canada has not, as yet, severely harmed the black market sales. It’s early days yet, I’ll admit, but so far the dealers aren’t in penury.
This is also true of countries with very severe enforcement. Japan, Korea and Singapore are, basically, crime free and they have lower usage and sales rates than the USA or Western Europe or the United States.
This is possible, but I sincerely doubt these massively powerful criminal gangs will just decide the jig is up once they lose a product. They’ll move into other products.
I will note that I am playing devil’s advocate here, I am totally agnostic on legalization.
This is a matter of preference. Do you prefer a free country, or would you rather have low crime rate due to extreme government regulation?
Yes but it generally only effects those in that market. Sure the butterfly effect reaches far, but if weed is legal, the majority of people are going to take the legal route just for peace of mind, making their families and themselves less prone to risk of backlash
Both Japan and Korea are free nations. Lowering crime via enforcement of criminal law is also pretty bedrock for any society, or are all criminal laws antithetical to liberty?
The only way they’d have a backlash would be if you enforce deviations from the legal stuff via criminal sanction. A per se legalization would not allow this.
Again, the Canadians have not, as yet, seen any massive drop in their black market. This may indeed happen, but assuming it was federally legal, this wouldn’t change the security risk that the drug smuggling gangs pose. They’ll either undercut price or change product.
Presumably you’d also still have to police importation of unregulated goods, which leads us to a similar situation to the one currently being faced.
Assuming some butterfly effect will lead to a peaceful Mexico also seems utopian to me.