# 12/7 Daily Show: Immorality vs Economy

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/12-7-daily-show-immorality-vs-economy/520429
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [December 8, 2009, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/12-7-daily-show-immorality-vs-economy/520429 "2009-12-08T09:53:24Z")
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### Author: ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2009, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/12-7-daily-show-immorality-vs-economy/520429/41 "2009-12-10T22:11:48Z")

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> [@md2000](#):
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> The devil is always in the details. Will you then institute the same infrastructure as for regulating cigarettes? Can towns ban it? How long before MADD or someone starts rallying against stores selling it and its falling into the hands of under-18’s who are driving under the influence, etc? What roadside sobriety tests?
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> Can you sell today cigarettes out of the back of your car or from your apartment? Will we need a whole collection of agents like the revenoors chasing down moonshine makers, just to help legitimize the industry?
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> it’s taken a century for alcohol and tobaco to get to the infrastructure and rules they have today. Expect a wild-west attitude for a while if it is legalized. The current entrepreneurs may take a whiule to learn proper less lethal business tactics, and may resent being bumped out fo the way by WalMart.
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> (Will they rename them the “Department for Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and THC”?)

Get them on Tax fraud, duh.

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