You’re talking about a gray market, like in legal cannabis states where prices are still high and there are ridiculous barriers preventing those who were growing cannabis illegaly before “legalization”(or rather prohibition 2.0) from entering the industry so they sell at a lower price and undercut the market. But these people are not multi million dollar cartels and in 97 cases out of 100 cartels have already moved out of the cannabis trade or they have taken steps to enter the legal trade. Im talking about a commercial environment where violence is not needed to protect the producer and their profits, the main idea behind prohibition is this enforcing of abstinence only moral Puritanism built on religious fundamentalism and racism/ white supremacy. There is definitely a way to undercut the entire black market but it is almost impossible within a capitalistic economy the leas regulated the more unfeasible it is.

Or we could just end the prohibition of drugs because it does nothing beneficial for society and destroy the black market instead of doing bullshit like “decriminalizing” which doesn’t do any good because the black market still flourishes

You missed the best part where christ is being asked how to achieve salvation and he answers basically sell all your possessions and donate all of the money from them to the poor then you will know righteousness.

But yeah, christ was jewish and most orthodox jews don’t believe in hell. Hell became a punishment within the myth of judaism after Alexander the great Hellenized the levant and greek culture mixed in so the concept of Haedes integrated into the myth. Before this as is said in genesis the punishment for sin was just death and really within the adam and eve creation myth eve’s consumption of the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil was not only a tool of misogyny to blame it on women but also just the vehicle to explain why human beings die.

But hell is the most illogical idea of what happens after we die because science has already proven all matter and energy are recycled to maintain equilibrium so reincarnations is a far more likely reality than eternal suffering by a petty being that is supposed to love his creation but also abuses us worse than the wife in an arranged marriage during the eighteenth century

Remember when trump got a bunch of undocumented Eastern European (polish I believe) immigrants to do the demolition and excavation work on the property that would become trump tower through the connections of his mafia consiglieri McCarthyite fixer lawyer Roy Cohn (who also had connections to human trafficking rings and a home for orphaned boys in norther ireland that MI5 and MI6 were using to recruit children to be abused for the purposes of Kompromat farming and blackmail rackets almost identical to the kind of operation Epstein and maxwell(whom trump met several years after Cohn died in ‘86)were running and then when the immigrant labor team, who had been contracted to do the work due to their very low bid, was finished with the work they were reported to immigration enforcement and then deported and trump saved a bunch of money by not having to pay what was owed on their services…… and then trump did something similar in Atlantic City by just refusing to pay contractors because it was cheaper to fight them in court and or settle since most couldn’t afford legal representation and many ended up going bankrupt. Trump’s excuse for this was that they did bad work but many of the contractors whom he did this to, litigated against and settled with he had the audacity to request them to do more work after the fact. So i can imagine what kind of fraud he is going to pull on this monstrosity of a neo-gilded age ball room but I would expect at least for trump to pocket half of the over inflated estimate and them cut as many corners as possible to try and further skim more off the top. Like how has this fuck not been prosecuted for violating the emoluments clause? It should really also include family members acting on behalf of the president’s past present and future business interests. This administration and subsequently the entire country as a result are in such a mess. And we can thank Roy Cohn for teaching trump how to brazenly commit fraud and get away with it continuously.

This is an explosive opinion

I follow the same rule with my wife.

Are you sure this isnt just a seasonal calendar of my wife?