The Golden One - Legalising Drugs. Straight-Edge Economist Answer to Drugs. Supply and Demand!

00:00:00.000 I want to elaborate a bit on drugs, supply demand, market forces, alcohol and whether it's a good

00:00:13.800 idea to forbid things or not. Before I begin, I would like to, as I do sometimes, quote Tywin

00:00:20.120 Lannister and say that a good king knows what he knows and knows what he does not know. And I'm

00:00:27.320 no expert on drugs. What I do know is that there should be a distinction between marijuana and

00:00:33.200 other drugs simply because there are, in certain cases, medical uses for marijuana. So I'm leaving

00:00:41.640 that there, so just keep that in mind. However, I want to take this opportunity to talk a bit about

00:00:48.100 the market forces of supply and demand. And I want you to keep this supply and demand,

00:00:55.080 wow, look at my forearms. Fucking glorious, if anything. Okay, the main point of this video 0.98

00:01:01.540 is actually to admire my forearms. But yeah, keep in mind, supply and demand, all time. Am I for

00:01:07.180 legalizing drugs? Am I for forbidding drugs? Am I for forbidding alcohol? Let us, as always,

00:01:14.860 true friends, look at history to show the way how humans react. This is also an important lesson.

00:01:21.940 If you want to see how people usually act, react to a certain happening, as it were, just look at,

00:01:30.400 you know, historical examples of such. So we can look at the area of forbid. I don't know what you call

00:01:37.560 it in English, but we had it in Sweden and in America and some other nations, the United States of

00:01:43.600 America that is, where you try to forbid alcohol. Now, there was a demand. They tried to create a

00:01:52.760 little barrier here, separating supply and demand. Now, the thing is, what happened? Did people stop

00:01:59.640 consuming alcohol? No, because there was still this huge demand for it, because people like to get

00:02:04.820 drunk. I think it's really, really degenerate. And I think no one who's watching this should

00:02:09.160 participate in such degenerate behavior. If you do, stop right now. So what happened was that

00:02:14.680 smuggling increased in America. It became a lucrative initiative for, you know, gangsters to

00:02:21.460 participate in the smuggling and the outlawed brewing of said alcoholic beverages. So what happened

00:02:28.460 was not that people stopped using alcohol, unfortunately, but that the supply met demand

00:02:35.260 outside of the law, because realize that this is supply and demand are extremely hard to separate.

00:02:42.340 Supply and demand will find a way, just like a romantic love will find a way. No, but yeah,

00:02:47.940 keep that in mind. Like, it's really hard to separate the two. So even if you forbid something,

00:02:53.080 and if there's still a demand, it's really hard to stop it, basically. So then we have the option

00:03:00.440 of letting the revenue of the drug sales or the alcohol sales. Like in Sweden, we have the following,

00:03:06.320 which I'm a great proponent for. We have the Systembolaget. So the state owns the right to sell

00:03:12.080 liquor. So the revenue of a detrimental thing goes to the state. And then the state can spend it on,

00:03:18.200 you know, free education and health care. Or as in Sweden's case right now, spend it on accepting

00:03:23.200 rape fugees, who will be detrimental to society. 1.00

00:03:27.120 But either way, in a perfect society, this revenue from a bad drug will obviously go to good 0.96

00:03:34.340 things. So that is my take on that whole thing. I'm not a proponent of forbidding things per se,

00:03:42.800 but if you can control it and utilize that negative force to something good. So we could legalize

00:03:50.200 drugs and have it, you know, controlled directly under the state. So that the revenue of the fucking 0.99

00:03:55.880 idiots who use it does not go to criminal gangs, but go to the state instead. And the state can 1.00

00:04:01.720 utilize it for fun things. Then we get rid of, you know, you take a source of income from these

00:04:07.400 criminal gangs and give it to the state instead. And that's the benefit of legalizing drugs. Now,

00:04:12.560 keep in mind, I'm a straight edge here. I'm still a great proponent of reducing alcohol consumption

00:04:18.620 and drug consumption as much as possible. That is my, I would rather live in a world where none of

00:04:23.700 those exist. So you might think like, oh, but why is he for legalizing drugs if he hates drugs? Well,

00:04:30.120 just because of human nature. And if we want to break this, we need to do something about demand.

00:04:36.000 We can work away demand in many given ways. We can work at it at a metapolitical level. We can

00:04:42.440 continue to create this culture of strength where, you know, you don't want drugs because drugs are for 1.00

00:04:47.800 fucking pathetic, weak people. So then you can reduce the demand as such and then the supply will 1.00

00:04:52.620 follow. Realize that if no one wants a particular product, if no one wants to buy a prostitute, if no one

00:04:59.660 wants to buy drugs, if no one wants to get drunk on cheap alcohol, those, the supply will drop as well.

00:05:07.520 Demand and supply always follow each other. So when the demand drops, the supply will follow, which then

00:05:14.840 in turn decreases the amount of drugs or whatever it is that is in circulation in the market.

00:05:22.460 So I hope that makes some sort of sense at least. But to briefly recap, supply and demand will always

00:05:28.260 meet each other. It's really, really hard for a state to separate the two. But what you can do is

00:05:33.620 harness that very negative energy for your own benefit, for the state's benefit. And then you can

00:05:38.740 spend it on fun things. Fun in this case being education, etc. And now you can also work on a

00:05:44.740 metapolitical level to try to destroy drug culture. And then also, like, I don't have anything against

00:05:51.940 outlawing either of it, but it can be detrimental in the fact that, you know, criminal gangs can get

00:05:58.060 another source of revenue. And, like, legalizing drugs, this is never something I, you know, actively

00:06:04.560 want to drive a policy war. I'm just throwing some thoughts out there to make you to think a bit

00:06:09.040 more. So it's not like if I'm ever part of a political party, legalizing drugs will not be

00:06:14.800 high on my agenda. This is just, like, general thoughts that are interesting to discuss. And I've

00:06:19.920 got this question many times. And who am I? I'm the Lion of Wisdom. XXO. Boom.

00:06:34.560 The Lion of Wisdom

The Golden One - February 08, 2016

Legalising Drugs. Straight-Edge Economist Answer to Drugs. Supply and Demand!

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