in terms of crime rates, just look at all asian countries where you loose a hand for stealing and go away for a long time for drug offences. people dont dare to steal or drug deal there.
And yet drugs flow everywhere on the streets of Thailand...
Seriously people even offer you drugs when you walk down the beach! happened to me twice in less then 3 weeks time -.-' (Although those people are most likely undercover police)
But anyway it is very easy to get drugs in Thailand... so saying that people wont dare to deal drugs is stupid IMO.. People will always deal drugs because there is money in the business... And in alot of countries they are so poor they have no other choise then to sell drugs to be able to buy food for their family...
Don't get me wrong... i am not a supporter for the dealers...
But i am a supporter for legalizing every drug because this will take away most if not all of the violence surrounding drug dealers and drug traffacing because there wont be any money in it anymore if people can buy it cheap in the shops...
Sending someone to jail for half their life for smoking some weed is just wrong IMO.
Besides IMO people should just use whatever they want.. it's their body and their live so who am i to tell them they can't use drugs?
EDIT: The reason why crime rates are low in those places is because most dealers work for the police(at least in Thailand this is the case)
If you buy from a dealer in Thailand you will have a pretty big chance that police will get you and demand you pay them to let you go...
Police there is very corrupt because they have no choise... they get payed not enough money to support their family so they have to do ilegal things to earn extra cash
In my girlfriend her town the internet cafe even has to pay the police if they want to stay open after 00:00