Qite true! That's why it shouldn't be regulating PEOPLES choices in that capacity.
What do you mean?
FTFY and yes, I'm inclined to agree there.
That didn't happen with prohibition. In fact, again, the government didn't even say the people couldn't use it - they said the people couldn't MASS PRODUCE it or DISTRIBUTE it.
And surely you don't have an issue with the government telling people not to MASS PRODUCE or DISTRIBUTE addictive drugs, right? I mean, by the sound of it, its really the reverse of what you said: I was alcohol yesterday, today it'll be pot, the next day it'll be MDMA, then heroin the next (granted, they already a legalized variant of heroin, but you get the idea).
Black market already exists.
Legalization does nothing in that capacity, as I addressed in a previous post.
Legalization invariably comes with increased cost. That's just the way it is, because the dispensers have increased costs they have to cover, thus this gets shunted onto the customer/product cost.
That variance in price is all that is required for a black market to emerge if it did not already exist, especially when you're talking about an addictive substance.
That said, if you really wanted booze, or weed, but nobody was selling it, why not just make it yourself?
I mean, yeah, you could buy it off someone who might be making it, but that's a lot of risk on your behalf - not to mention the risk of the guys making enough of it to have enough to distribute!
Point being, a black market will exist no matter what you do, so legalization won't change that in any way.
Further, if we're talking about making MASS PRODUCTION and DISTRIBUTION illegal, but NOT making personal production/consumption illegal, then a lot of the issues therein fall away - why risk breaking the law for something that I can produce myself at even lower cost than the stuff available on the black market?
Basic shifting of incentives.