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To: astoundedlib

But unfortunately the one who actually set the real laws, is the black market...They have the money, the power and the dope... If something on the legal market is not satisfying the customers, they'll be more than happy to help them out with better price!


We agree. But, as I stated earlier, governments going to set the price, if legal. It will be high with the same justification used on tobacco/alcohol.
To " save the children", health care costs, etc.

The same black market that exist now, will exist then.
The DEA will only get bigger. The dealers are now cutting into government money.
The ATF is far larger now, than when cigarettes were under 2 bucks a pack.

In Florida, voters will determine if the anti smoking groups get an extra 55 million a year from the tobacco settlement. They don't want people to smoke, but they have no problem being funded by cigarette sales.

The anti drug people will do the same to legal pot.

No product stays cheap when a majority gets to vote against
a minority.
Which is why there will never be "tobacco or pot" coffee houses. Majority rules.

Fewer people do drugs than smoke. And smokers never win.



468 posted on 05/03/2006 4:33:30 PM PDT by Bogey
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To: Bogey
Good afternoon sir,
unfortunately, you're right...people would need to realize that banning something is not the key in keeping people away...

i am reading an interesting book these days set in the future and an old dude explains to a couple of kid how the world became at war and etc... the theory was that it all happened because of what they called " the ones who forbids" a bit in reference to the Muslim religion in those countries over sea...

people, the majority, should face reality; drugs are part of this world, and it is not by denying them that you will get rid of it...

I am wondering how Amsterdam keeps their low price though, while keeping criminality rating and drug use rating lower than a lot of other "civilized" countries...
469 posted on 05/05/2006 8:12:06 AM PDT by astoundedlib
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