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> This is pretty evil, but it will continue happening as long as politicians can be bought to keep it legal.

You could make this exact same argument for liquor sales.

The top 10% of regular drinkers have 10 drinks a day. If they reduced their consumption to that of the next decile, total ethanol sales would fall by 60 percent.[1]

We tried banning alcohol sales. It didn't work very well.

[1] http://www.the-american-interest.com/2014/10/05/the-alcohol-...

parent wdr1 11 years ago

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