What? Dismal Alley? Rough Part of town? Come to a place like Kentucky, there isn't a rough part of town in these places.
A small city with a population of 1000, where the grower is down the street and you buy direct from them, or where grandpa grows it, and uses his family as the supply chain. The TV may portray it like that, but it is a greatly different scene around here at least. Usually somebody knows the grower. > -----Original Message----- > From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 2:20 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: The $25 billion failure > > Because most people prefer to go to their local coffeeshop or bar to get > their marijuana or drugs, rather than stand in some dismal > alley or street corner to get their stuff. Even if you get your weed from > a friend, he's going to be going to the dismal alley to > get it from the dealer in the rough part of town. Somebody's getting it > from the rough part of town. > > 'Bill' will actually quite quickly become 'unemployed', as these > individuals will find it difficult if not impossible to transition > to 'legal' enterprise. > > It would be intersting to see all the Bling Blingers who use drug money to > fund the entire Urban Subculture of expensive, flashy > cars, big jewelry etc. have to transition to..hmm..to what exactly? What > would fill the void of the money earned from selling drugs? > > What would a small country like Trinidad do actually, without being a > transshipment point for drugs entering the US and Europe? That > money does flow through our economy. A three bedroom townhouse in Trinidad > is about 200,000US minimum in a decent area.A 318i BMW is > about US$40,000. People purchase three and four of these townhouses, and > you can see several BMWs on the road and other expensive > luxury cars (JAGUAR is going to be introduced in Trinidad early next > year). > Where does that money come from? > A lot of it from money laundering and other proceeds of the drug > trafficking trade. We do have a lot of oil money, but that hardly > filters down to the general population and is kept in the tight circles of > the elite due to a corrupt and generally ineffective > government. > > So there are a lot of reasons AGAINST legalising. But the most sensible > ones have nothing to do with the 'dangers' to the population > of an explosion in drug use because of legalising, or the dangers of > Marijuana itself etc. > > It's just economics. And if the money and economics says that it is more > lucrative, profitable, and stable to maintain some sort of > balanced trade in illegal drugs, then it will not be legalised unless > there is very strong public outcry as what ended Prohibition. > > In fact, check back to how much money was made on both sides, Law > Enforcement and Criminals during Prohibition. What happened to > those criminals when Prohibition ended? The precendent is already there. > > Or maybe I'm just cynical ;-) > -Gel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.cfhosting.net Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:138887 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
