Re: A Prison State, If Not a Police State

royls_at_telus.net
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 19:10:27 GMT

On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:14:19 GMT, "Bill" <xxx@yy.zz> wrote:

>I'm not even sure where this discussion started but I think it was my
>suggestion that people are sometimes introduced to drugs by others in social
>situations and if they were very scarce this would be less likely to happen.
>This still seems true.

But you don't seem to have a handle on the concepts of "cost" and
"benefit." Addictions imply a certain level of cost to society, but
so does enforcement. Spending $1G on enforcement to eliminate $1M in
addiction costs does not make a lot of sense; but at the
zero-tolerance margin, that is what you are proposing, and worse.
Think of it this way: if at any given level of drug importation you
could cut drug imports in half by spending $1G on enforcement, how
much would you have to spend on enforcement to eliminate drug imports
entirely? How much benefit would you get by spending $1G to reduce
total imports from a gram to half a gram?

-- Roy L

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