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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: mishedlo who wrote (30538)5/2/2005 10:45:30 AM
From: GraceZRead Replies (3) of 306849
 
There is profit in getting people hooked and plenty of it.


This was always my argument, take away the profit, you starve the criminal population from a source of income. Of course the criminal population is amazingly adaptive when one source of income disappears, they find another. People who are addicted still need money for drugs unless you want the government to get into the biz of handing out addictive drugs. No government is going to get into handing out free drugs to children, so you still have an illegal market for the criminal element, just younger.

In the end stage most addicts aren't particularly good at getting money for their drugs from productive labor (unless you think prostitution and B&E is productive). We did have a short period where if you were a drug addict or alcoholic you could qualify for SSI and get a nice government stipend to use for drugs. The program grew so fast they put a lid on it.

How do you feel about big tobacco and liquor companies? Think there is any profit in there? I dare say the legal drugs have a far more widespread population of users. Almost all my old addict friends, the ones who are still alive, gave up the illegal drugs but still use the legal ones. What is funny and on topic is that they all did this right around the time when they decided to go straight and buy a house! Somehow having to make a mortgage payment every month had a more sobering effect than any other inducement.
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