Why do liberals who favor an indulgent approach to addiction to harmful drugs - including not just decriminalization but efforts to keep prices down and provide free paraphernalia - take the opposite approach in efforts to discourage consumption of tobacco products, alcohol, or gasoline?
In the face of inelasticity of demand, sin taxes, prohibition, and efforts at suppression considerably encourage crime, both by addicts and by those who produce for them and supply them, while doing little to diminish consumption.
And by government officials corrupted by so much money and so much danger.
Ask the Mexican drug lords about all that.
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