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> Surely the price of the drug, all else being equal, would strongly correlate to the number of crimes committed to obtain the drug.

You have a good point there. If I was wrong and crack and meth became dirt cheap and there was no long associated violent crime and robbery, to no longer support a war on it I'd have to see that its legality lead to no significant drain on society in other ways. That would include parenting, job performance, accidents / injuries, etc.



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