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Originally Posted by M&Ms
Considering Drugs, Alcohol and Gambling are (IMO) the roots of most evil in this country (Domestic Violence, Aggravated Violence, Thefts, Suicide, Road Trauma, etc), a responsible government should be doing all that is necessary to control these elements. Zero tolerance IMO to illicit drugs would be a good start.
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Two of those are advertised all over TV and the government collects large amounts of taxes from both - there is a shrine to these two in Melbourne that's just about open 24/7/365 and takes up the majority of an entire suburb with 19,000 people living in it:
People are going to do it anyway then why not make it safer and collect a slice of the very large pie?
Look at prohibition in the USA and how that turned out - it kicked off organised crime in the USA and they gained huge influence.