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To: Rolla Coasta who wrote (33109)	4/14/2008 1:44:37 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217907

The drug cartels are master traders. Right now Europe is awash in cocaine and they get paid in euros. google.com

To: Rolla Coasta who wrote (33109)	4/14/2008 2:03:53 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217907

For the same reasons that legal drugs are legal < Illegal drugs harm people, so why legalize them ??? > Drugs harm people. So does sugar and a lot more besides. We don't make everything illegal which harms people, though bossy people are making more and more things illegal, which is counter productive because human nature is defiant and more and more enforcement will be a much bigger problem than self-destruction by mountain climbers, sugar eaters, cocaine snorters, motorcycle riders and cigarette smokers. When drugs were all legal, such as opium, they were not a significant problem. Now there are deaths galore due to the enforcement industry and the promotion of drugs by the enforcement industry as a cool thing to do. Being defiant is cool. Therefore, to be cool, one has to use drugs. There is also huge cost in enforcement which is worse than the drug-use deaths which are self-selected. Just as the USA saved Vietnamese villagers by destroying them, drug enforcers save people from drugs by killing them. Literal execution in some countries, but a Shroedinger cat lifestyle in a prison is not much different. Cigarettes are good because they kill people before they collect their old age pension and cost a lot to care for medically in their declining years. Governments collect heaps of taxes from tobacco. Because tobacco is generally seen as a bad thing, it is politically acceptable to tax it so much. Lung cancer lasts months, but senility lasts years. Heart attacks last minutes. Without cigarettes, government budgets would be blown as revenue falls and old age payments increase. Mqurice

To: Rolla Coasta who wrote (33109)	4/14/2008 3:14:44 PM
From: Sea Otter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217907

alcohol kills millions, tobacco kills millions - and they're all legal and all taxed. the illegal drugs are pikers by comparison. they're illegal only because it benefits vested interests to keep them illegal. plus its a great way to keep minorities down. for instance, pot was made illegal in the US back in the 1930s because Mexicans and blacks smoked it. busting them for pot was a great way to keep those folks in line. the public health had nothing to do with it. it was another just reach of big government into people's lives. now we can arrest people for bad blood chemistry! cool! if government really cared about public health and it wanted to be consistent, it would outlaw alcohol and tobacco - and put into prison anyone who used them. meanwhile it would legalize pot, given it causes relatively less harm.