As far as I am concerned theft is a form of violence so I'm pretty sure we are on the same page
Thieves are not non-violent criminals because they are committing a transgression against a person
I guess it would have been better for me to say victimless crime I always use them two interchangeably by accident
Drug dealers are committing the crime of tax evasion at a bare minimum. That is stealing from everyone. You know as well as I do that when you go up the ladder in the hard drug business that those people are all violent and ruthless criminal gang and cartel members. When those drugs are legal the people who sell them illegally will not go legit, they will try to find another criminal enterprise. Of course without the option of selling illegal drugs there are a whole lot fewer people who can be supported by crime. Illegal drug sales funds every gang cartel and terrorist in the world, make them legal and they go out of business. Then we won't need as many cops.
well i dont think tax evasion is a crime because taxation is theft :-P
The higher ups in the cartels are never the ones who gets arrested...its the good people like my friends who are just getting by doing their thing and not hurting anyone are the ones who get in trouble and have their lives ruined. many of them would go into a mainstream market and would not go to another life of crime.
Further, for the gangsters and cartels that are hurting people, yeah ..they should get in trouble for hurting people...but not for selling drugs
the guy who you get coke or heroin from might be cool but the guy he gets it from is not. El Chapo is in prison right now.
Furthermore anyone selling illicitly produced black market opiates intended for injection is selling a deadly poison to people, they are unlabeled and inconsistent and cannot be safely dosed.
They killed 60,000 people last year, that's pretty violent isn't it?