At 06:54 PM 7/16/98 -0500, Valis wrote: >Considering the obvious fact that every aspect of the drug trade, >from seed to smoke rings, requires extreme stealth and diverting guile, >any presumption of accurate stats, collected or inferred, should be looked >upon as pure bullshit: drunken hypocrites singing for their budget hike. Or crypto-nazis manufacturing the drug scare to justify their installation of a police state. After the Big Bear quit his job as the Evil Emperor, the spooks are in a dire need for a plausible replacement. Saddam Hussein just ain't scary enough. Regards, Wojtek Sokolowski