Quote Originally Posted by J R Hartley View Post
Make your mind up. One minute they are getting free heroin, now you want to tax it. Where are they going to get the money from to pay for it?

also, if your messing with the strength then then you wont get rid of the dealers because they will just sell a stronger product. Its what is happening now in the Merthyr at the moment. Too many dealers so they are trying to get the upper hand by selling a stronger, albeit more expensive, product.

Finally, going right to the top of the source do you really think the cartels are going to let the goverments just decide its legal and put them out of business. In the countries these drugs are grown the goverment are controlled by the cartels.
You can distribute it at a price similar to alcohol, do people steal alcohol, yeah of course. Do we have dealers on the street pushing alcohol at you and then ramping prices in the future, no of course not.

Dealer could produce a stronger product, it wouldn't eliminate a problem, but offer more control over it. Just like with Alcohol and Cigarettes now there is a black market but the majority buy from stores.

Heroin is an opiate it would be easy enough to manufacture in this country if we decided to make it legal, without having to deal with Cartels.