Success Quote by George Soros

Soros frames marijuana prohibition less as a moral crusade than as a market distortion with a dark, predictable winner: whoever controls supply when legitimate commerce is barred. The line is built like an investor’s memo disguised as a civic question. “Who most benefits” isn’t curiosity; it’s a lever that pries the reader away from the usual fog of “values” and toward incentives, cash flow, and power.

The subtext is pointed: if your policy reliably manufactures billion-dollar margins for cartels, then the policy isn’t merely failing - it’s subsidizing violence. Soros doesn’t need to describe bloodshed; he implies it through the language of “major criminal organizations” and “competitive advantage,” a cold pairing that makes the human cost feel even more damning. By treating illegality as a moat that protects incumbents, he casts drug policy as an accidental antitrust program for organized crime.

Context matters. Soros has long backed drug-policy reform and public-health approaches; he’s also a lightning rod in political discourse. That makes this quote rhetorically shrewd: it sidesteps the caricature of permissiveness and instead appeals to a pragmatic, even hawkish intuition - you don’t beat an enemy by guaranteeing their revenue.

The punch is in “legal commodity.” He’s not romanticizing marijuana; he’s normalizing it, strategically. Once you accept the commodity frame, prohibition looks less like protection and more like self-inflicted economic sabotage that props up the very actors politicians claim to oppose.