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To: epicure who wrote (4415)	11/9/2003 6:40:25 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

I hadn't read that article on the prison stats and unemployment, but the logic of it had immediately come to me after a bit of ballpark mental number-crunching. I suppose the other thing that made me think of it is that I was just reading an article on the number of prisoners who were working on the firelines in California (several thousand), being paid something like a buck an hour. The same prisoners (mostly drug offenders) usually do things like working on trail construction through parks, etc... So, there you go... you just have to find some way to create a bunch of imbecilic laws so that there will be law offenders, toss them in the clinker, then "pay" them much less than the minimum wage to do grunt work that used to employ unskilled laborers... Hmmmm.... this is actually starting to sound rather like the kinds of things that go on in all those despicable communist countries... :0) As for the War on Drugs. Yeah, well, it's a ridiculous waste of money and I doubt it does much to stop the flow. Better to spend the bucks INSIDE the U.S., improving education and the job outlook for young people so that they don't have to face a hopeless future. But, you know how it is, waste the bucks on incarcerating people for selling grass... and even for selling good ole American made bongs.... Yup, better to jail the bong-makers and import cheaper bongs from China.. lol It's all getting kinda old and pretty sad IMO.

To: epicure who wrote (4415)	11/9/2003 7:02:05 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20773

BTW, there's something that I've been wondering about for awhile. Does anyone know what ever happened to these malicious lawbreakers? Are they in prison too (and costing taxpayers a few tens of thousands of dollars each a year not to mention the money spent on trials, etc...)? If they've been convicted and are in prison, that may have created job openings for three unemployed female senior citizens. rockymountainnews.com

To: epicure who wrote (4415)	11/9/2003 9:49:56 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

begin to use our international dollars to promote democracy- instead of supporting drug interdiction juntas. Maybe we could do something really revolutionary and just leave the countries alone.

To: epicure who wrote (4415)	11/10/2003 8:44:38 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 20773

It would sure help the farmers who grow opium and coca all right. By expanding the demand for their crops. Just think if Big Tobacco's Madison Avenue agencies could do for cocaine and heroin what they've done for nicotine. I can see an image of Joe Camel doing a line of blow now. And if your vision can be realized, you'll want to invest in Coca Cola. That tradename would become a lot more valuable if they could put the Coca back in Coca Cola. I don't know why China has a bad memory of the Opium War era. Those colonial powers were actually doing such a favor for China forcing it to do away with it's puritanical laws against opium.