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by hn_throwaway_99 3249 days ago
Great, legalize drugs and that all goes away.
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For an example of this, check out Portugal that legalized and had great success.

I wonder if anyone can point to place where drugs are legalized and violence increased? Where addiction increased?

Seems absurd, yet people don't think the drug war is absurd-- they don't immediately see this takeover of Hanza as the government illegally operating a black market for weeks and thus committing massive crime, and they don't see the shutdown of the market as a further crime violating the rights of the sellers to sell something that morally and practically their buyers should be able to buy (when it comes to drugs anyway)

The legality of committing crimes while in pursuit of criminal prosecutions is interesting.

Here's a reference for your reading pleasure (though this is, I believe, U.S.-centric, so not exactly the case here)

https://www.quora.com/Are-undercover-cops-allowed-to-break-t...

You might be interested in the Playpen case going on now:

https://www.eff.org/pages/playpen-cases-frequently-asked-que...