Time after time the state has tried to destroy a market, and every time the public is shocked that the ban did not “work”. Sometimes there is a very noble reason for a ban, such as saving an amazing creature such as the elephant. There is less ivory consumed in the US since the ivory ban was enacted, but that may be due to increased awareness, not the ban itself. I wonder if efforts to further educate, or to self-promote as selling “elephant-friendly ivory”, would be higher without the ban…