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Originally Posted by Argent Stonecutter  Massively cutting down the illegal profits from currently illegal drugs, by legalization, so that it dropped to number two would free up enormous resources for law enforcement. |
No, it wouldn't free up that much. Don't kid yourself. You're not the first person to raise that idea but... no.
The criminals would still be smuggling drugs to places where it's not legalised, or cheaper copies or fakes of what you can get 'legally'.
There would still be drugs labs to find, networks to disrupt. Cultivators aren't going to produce only for legal sources if they can grow more and get more profit by selling a bit extra.
Also, people will smuggle anything where there is profit to be made. People, small arms, cigarettes, exotic wildlife....
Cut off one activity, they find another. Cut off one route, and another one springs up.