It is of course true, but only trivially so, that the present illegality of drugs is the cause of he criminality surrounding their distribution. Likewise, it is the illegality of stealing cars that creates car thieves. In fact the ultimate cause of all criminality is law. As far as I am aware, no one has ever suggested that the law should therefore be abandoned. Moreover, the impossibility of winning the "war" against theft, burglary, robbery, and fraud has never been used as an argument that these categories of crime should be abandoned.
Our Culture... p225
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