Alberto Monteiro wrote: > Jim Sharkey wrote: > > > > (...) but wouldn't it make more sense to give these > > impoverished farmers *more* money not to plant poppies > > than they would normally get? (...) > > > No. It's a bad idea. > > Because even if money can erradicate drug plantations in > _one_ country, there are lots of other countries with > starving people who _would_ plant them.
You're right of course. I guess I was just a little frustrated this morning. I've long thought that maybe we're going about this anti-drug thing all wrong here is all. And when I read a story like that, I guess it just got me stirred up. > It's useless to fight the drug dealers. You have to kill > the people consuming them O:-) Yeah, but then I'd have had to kill my brother back when we were teenagers, and I don't think my mother would have approved. :-) Jim ------------------------------------------------
