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To: lugsoul
There are no bootleggers? Well, that's just a false statement. Illegal alcohol sales are incredibly common in places where alcohol sales are illegal. I've bought alcohol from bootleggers. As a minor. I know for a fact that they still exist. You are just wrong. But that will be no surprise to anyone.

OK there are alcohol bootleggers. There are infinitely more drug dealers. What is your point? Dealing drugs is much, much less complicated that bootlegging alcohol today. And drugs are illegal everywhere in this country.

Also, your grasp of economics is a bit weak. Explain how these teenage pushers will make MORE money selling a legal substance, which is pretty damn easy to produce, when its current price is supported completely by the fact that it is illegal. What do you think it costs to grow an ounce of weed and get it to market?

I grow tired of sparring with mental Lilliputians. First, I never said pushers would make MORE(your emphasis) money. But it is you who either denies, or does not understand how the system works. Pushers make a small percentage of the value of the trade. Since selling to minors will still be illegal, those who do so will probably take exactly the same markup. Legalizing drugs will not eradicate pushers. If anything there will be more of them.

I always find it amusing to be called stupid by an idiot.

381 posted on 07/09/2003 8:37:20 AM PDT by presidio9 (RUN AL, RUN!!!)
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To: presidio9
Wow - you can miss a point found in your own words. Okay, real slow now... Illegal alcohol sales are more difficult because alcohol is a legal, regulated substance. The entire pot economy is underground.

You've got stones calling anyone an idiot, after the crap you post here. Oh, by the way, nice that you ran away from your bootlegger claim as soon as you were challenged on it.

388 posted on 07/09/2003 8:42:05 AM PDT by lugsoul
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To: presidio9
I always find it amusing to be called stupid by an idiot.

I find it amusing to be called an idiot by a no-nothing moronic imbecile.

398 posted on 07/09/2003 8:48:48 AM PDT by ActionNewsBill (Police state? What police state?)
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