California has shown us quite well that allowing only a very crippled white market, such that white-market goods are likely to be even more expensive than current black-market prices, is a perfect recipe to fail to eliminate the black market, its many ills and the many ills of any police efforts to stop the black market despite the 4th Amendment.

The state-run liquor stores are theoretically a horrible practice and we should cut all of the state spending that necessitates them, but practically they operate well enough that even our neighbors flock to them.