On Feb 24, 2009, at 10:07 AM, Chris Gehlker wrote: >> There is an alternative. We could start buying Afghani >> poppies for legal opiates. Pay more than the Taliban does to Afghani >> growers. It is not as if there is no legitimate market for opiates. > > This is silly. I have seen the small farm in California that produces > all the legal opium used in North America. Unless we supply addicts we > do nothing to reduce the demand for Afghan poppies.
Simply buying all the stuff and then burning it might still prove cost- effective, compared to the alternatives. -Patrick _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
