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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Selectric II who wrote (232915)	3/4/2002 2:38:04 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) of 769670

Either that or treat consumption as a medical, not a legal problem... thus reducing the profit potential from the business... and by diverting money to the education and medical side of the equation, work on the long-term reduction of demand. After all, it's only a criminal problem if we define it as such, and the negative societal impact of all the illegal drugs put together doesn't add up to the measured harm from the legal ones: tobacco and alcohol... not to mention prescription drug abuses. Agricultural alternatives only work if they are economically viable. For example our coca substitution efforts in South America mostly fail because they are not economically rational... even after indigent farmers switch to 'truck crops', since there is no transportation infrastructure to allow them to ship to markets the crops rot... or otherwise fail to be marketable. It's pure PR, not a viable effort to induce substitution. And, after all, the taxpayers who fund the farce never complain.

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