In California, the legalization of cannabis caused a boom of illegal production in California, the legalization of cannabis caused a boom of illegal production
Atlantico: In November 2016, Californian voters approved the use of cannabis for recreational purposes.One of the shock arguments for this legalization was to end illegal trade.However, the black market has exploded, the authorities estimating it today at $ 8 billion, double official sales.How to explain it?
Xavier RAUFER: First, let's not forget: the drugs are not dangerous because they are prohibited;Conversely, they are prohibited because it is dangerous - often, fatally.
Californian libertarian ideologues wanting everything to "liberalize", narcotics in mind, have the icon m.Soros, financial pirate sentenced to all levels of European justice.This follower of fox freedom in the chicken coop therefore financed the de-penalizing campaign.What he and his local seides were looking for free drugs "as a recreational" was to dive California into anarchy: a major success.
As everywhere where its "recreational use" was voted, Canada, etc.., coexist two cannabis markets: one lawful, the other not;The latter selling less uncapted products.A "healthy" market for "sores" and another dangerous (flooded plants of carcinogenic pesticides, etc..) for the poor, the young, etc..Between these two markets, an escalation on the rate of psychoactive product in their drugs.Sometimes the level of THC (tetra-hydro-cannabinol) is such, that it provides severe hallucinations, closer to LSD than the "joint" of Dad.
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Could a change on the taxation of these products, by bringing prices drop, attracting consumers to official shops and ending illegal commerce?
I doubt it: the illegal market has an infinite bidder capacity.With its profit rates always exceeding 50%;sometimes 70%;More of course, zero taxes and taxes, the narcos can sell their products as long as it takes.In Canada, they are 10 to 15% cheaper than taxé-Légal cannabis and thus easily survive.More, the vast cybermonde falsification capacities.Example: in the same street of Vancouver (city that I know well), two indistinguishable cannabis shops, the same drug in it, tax of taxation, license, etc..In the window - one, legal and the other, 100% counterfeit!To the point that local police are unaware of how there are these shops in town, legal or not.By hacking, counterfeiting even falsified in the town hall recording files...
Do you think that such a phenomenon would occur in France if cannabis was legalized for recreational purposes?Do you think that French society is ready to accept legalization?
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Ce mauvais diagnostic posé par la France sur le "tsunami" de cocaïne qui déferle sur l’EuropeLegalize or not, prohibit or not, is the executive.Drugs have been illicit since the 19th century, their production, traffic, etc..is still under the thumb of the organized crime.As a criminologist, I am therefore competent to alert the public authorities and the opinion on the risks and dangers of a change in the legal status of narcotics.Now what I now see, in the world, leads me to warn of perilous developments:
• Shaken, disabled at the start (confinements, border clogs) drugs of drugs - Central Asia, Rif from Morocco, northern cone of Latin America, "Golden Triangle", quickly seized the immense opportunity offered tothem: rulers obsessed by the COVID;disturbed audience, eager for artificial paradise.Since then, it is the planetary flood of narcotics - cannabis, heroin, amphetamines, cocaine, etc..We always grasp more - so it goes from seven to nine times more.All this, by massive violence, corruption and intimidation.Let us not forget that the narcotic exporters respond on their lives of the success of their traffic.
• Be careful, in particular, to the tsunami sweeping Europe, of a very cocaine criminogen.Everywhere and still (United States in mind), his burst caused a bloodbath between gangs arguing the cake.In Europe, it starts on the North Atlantic facade, from Rotterdam to Le Havre.Watch out for the suite, in the off-control districts.
Can we see similarities in the American and French context?
Yes, blindness.The inability to see clear and quickly what emerges.The reputation of demagogues in front of anarchists and media-bobos gurus;Faced with a frelated "youth" and its inept copy-paste of the "gangsta-rap" of the American ghettos.On the one hand, we launch a (dummy) "drug war" by winning there a few pounds of cannabis there - where in France, it smokes a ton per day (minimum);on the other, bobos-macron prostrate in front of rappers, de facto "cultural" showcase of Narcos of the off-control areas.