if you are a white male and wear cowboy boots, it aint shady... if you are a black man strolling through a redneck town, it can be quite scary...
not saying that your town is a redneck town, with no black people, just shedding light on the fact that what is not shady to you, might be very shady to others... tw On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 14:46:04 -0500, Nick McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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:5:138892 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=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
