Does anyone know how many people would be out of jobs if

[leftofthedial]

the "War" on drugs actually succeeded in eliminating all the drug dealers, drug manufacturers, drug shippers, drug-dealer accountants, drug dealer muscle, etc.

I don't think anyone has taken this into account.

[Digit]

1. Do you know if they are hiring?

I do have customer service experience and plenty of sales experience.
I am looking for a position where I have a potential for advancement in a growth oriented organization.
Let me know, k?

:sarcasm:

[Chisox08]

3. Yeah Pookie down the street is looking

is looking for someone with sales experince. A good pair of running shoes is a must because of a few minor visits from the cops. You also must be a good money handler. You also are provided with a retirement home where you get three meals a day and free health care. he is taking aplications now.
:sarcasm:

[Digit]

5. I am grandmotherly and have an innocent looking face ....

I believe these attributes will give me a heads up on the competition.
I could use 3 squares and health insurance about now.
Do they provide cable?

:sarcasm:

[reggie the dog]

11. turn one or several rooms in your house

into a cannabis grow op. Find one gangster or biker to buy all of your harvest. Selling bulk you should be able to get 2000 us dollars a pound. Money does grow an trees after all.

[QC]

2. And what if the Mafia were put out of business?

How would Vinnie the Snake and Fat Tony support their families?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. well, lots and lots of cops, prosecutors

prison industry workers and such would too, so I don't see that happening

[mitchum]

12. And don't forget the PARASITIC drug testing industry

[masuki bance]

6. Yeah, what about all the burglars, thiefs, embezzlers, scammers

hoaxers, robbers, white collar criminals, forgers, identity theft rings, Nigerian email cabals, carjackers, home invaders, home improvement gypsies, boiler room telemarketers, etc, etc..

What about their income? Ever think of that?

[LiberalFighter]

7. With it being high turnover it would be minimal. Kill... replace... prison... replace

[leftofthedial]

8. wouldn't that mean MORE, not fewer people?

[Danascot]

9. Drugs Won the War on Drugs

By Nicholas Kristof

This year marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s start of the war on drugs, and it now appears that drugs have won.

“We’ve spent a trillion dollars prosecuting the war on drugs,” Norm Stamper, a former police chief of Seattle, told me. “What do we have to show for it? Drugs are more readily available, at lower prices and higher levels of potency. It’s a dismal failure.”

For that reason, he favors legalization of drugs, perhaps by the equivalent of state liquor stores or registered pharmacists. Other experts favor keeping drug production and sales illegal but decriminalizing possession, as some foreign countries have done.

Here in the United States, four decades of drug war have had three consequences:

First, we have vastly increased the proportion of our population in prisons.

Second, we have empowered criminals at home and terrorists abroad.

Third, we have squandered resources.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/opinion/14kristof.html?ref=opinion

[truedelphi]

10. Good report. Also the DEA chief in charge of Northern California

Counties refused to be put on the spot when some "Money Channel" reporter tried to tell him off and who called the DEA chief irresponsible for not shutting down the marijuana enterprise.

His attitude was "The people have spoken and want it legal." Reporter kept pushing him about his responsibility etc, and the DEA chief kept pushing back, pointing out that he would be willing to shut down marijuana industry if that was what people wanted, but he couldn't get his panties in a knot over it since people don't want it shut down.

Reporter seemed clueless - and kept saying how bad it was that the marijuana industry was one of the few things keeping some Northern california Counties alive economically.

So maybe Schwartzennegger should just push to stamp and tax it rather than brooding about attempting to eliminate it. Mendocino County already has a stamp and tax policy going into effect (or so I have heard)