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To: maceng2 who wrote (35011)	11/8/2000 4:22:21 AM
From: chic_hearne	Read Replies (1) of 436258

From what I heard there was a huge problem with drugs in the USA (probably Europe too) during the early 1920's. While I know the focus of this thread is the stock markets and there is an emphasis on history repeating itself, I'm not referring to the 20's and am not aware of any facts from that time. Banning things, just gives money to criminals as far as I can see. Yes, this is the exact problem. The drug trade operates like big business (I mean shit, it is like billions a year in the US alone). There's not a bunch of idiots running the show, except only the ones you see get caught other than a few times the cops get lucky. It's supply/demand at its core. As more people get busted, it's more lucrative to get into the game. I've witnessed it, it's all supply/demand and there's just too much friggin money that comes out of nowhere for busting dealers to be successful. That strategy completely ignores the demand scenario and gives more incentive to get in on the supply side. It's not very hard to earn $1K a week doing low risk stuff, which equals $100K per year after taxes.

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