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For the prohibition, conservatively the homicide rate dropped 5-13%.

if about 15k people in the US are murdered every year. Ending drug prohibition would save lets say 10% of those murdered? or 1,500 people. thats about half the amount killed on 9/11. This isn't counting all the deaths south of the border or all of the violence.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/opinion/sunday/the-not...

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This is a rather lazy analysis. Would you like to consider any more than a single act of terrorism on the other side of your accounting? 'All of the death [or violence] south of the border' is also rather imprecise and self-generous.

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