logoalt Hacker News

cluckindan01/22/20252 repliesview on HN

Many criminal gangs from biker groups to foreign cartels are doing the same thing and reaping profits in the $100Bs scale annually.

Your argument is not an argument for incarceration, it is an argument for abolition of prohibition and regulating the sales of some psychoactives.

The same stone would hit the fentanyl epidemic, it would hit the pushers of ”zombie drug” laced cocktails, it would hit cross-border trafficking, to name only a few. Society would massively benefit. So would the economy.


Replies

sobellian01/22/2025

> Many criminal gangs from biker groups to foreign cartels are doing the same thing and reaping profits in the $100Bs scale annually.

That comparison does not flatter Ross Ulbricht.

show 1 reply
krupan01/22/2025

"Society would massively benefit"

Yes. Just like San Francisco and Seattle did when they legalized drugs

show 1 reply