> From: "Stephen A. Lawrence" > From Orionworks > >An extremely OT essay follows. You have been warned! ;-) > > > > > Indeed! But I had a couple comments none the less.
... Hi Stephen, You make several valid points concerning my "jaundiced" view of the drug cartel situation. My rant was to a large extent meant to stir the pot, just as much as it was to simply step up on the soapbox for a brief twenty minutes of fame. Yes, clinics, would probably be a better place to sell addictive drugs as compared to "the streets." However, you need to go where the customers are. In any case, whether governments can turn the entire drug selling operation into a "business" that fully funds its own operations or whether it would have to be heavily subsidized is to a large extent irrelevant. Either way, I suspect it would end up being significantly cheaper to fund than the current batch of morally righteous funded operations. Come to think of it, it probably would be in our best interest that the operations remain subsidized as there would be more of an incentive to eventually make it go away. And now, back to our regularly scheduled MAHG programming topics. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com
