Banning drugs is creating cartels and here is the proof

Like any other product, drugs have supply and demand. By banning drugs, the government only restricts its supply, but it cannot control the demand for them. Once the supply is restricted and the demand remains the same, prices will rise, which makes selling drugs a very good business.

Due to a supply drastically reduced (causing an oligopoly), the producers have more control over the price and, consequently, greater profits, which in its turn increase the incentives for selling drugs.

The business, although very profitable, is also very dangerous once you have to fight the police. This creates incentives for drug dealers to be armed and violent, so instead of terminating them, the government only selects the most violent sellers to be on the market.

This is how the government creates incentives to the formation of violent cartels.

Bonus phase - A moral defense of the legalization

Whenever something is compulsory, it loses its moral status.

In order for an act to have a moral status (moral or imoral) the individual must have the option to act or not. For example:

If you are forced to donate, this act is not moral, because you didn’t have the option to do otherwise, the act is now amoral (devoided of moral status). The same happens if you are prohibited from using drugs. In this case, not using drugs isn’t moral anymore, because you didn’t had any other option, this act (of not using drugs) becomes AMORAL. So when you fight drugs, you are not making a moral society, but the opposite, you are making an amoral society.

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