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To: Wolfie; MrLeRoy
"After 60 or so years of Prohibition, they've got the price down to kiddie levels."

Well, well, well. They got the price down and they didn't have to legalize it to do it.

The one good thing will be that there will be no more crime by heroin users stealing to support their habit. Not at these prices, right MrLeRoy?

42 posted on 10/08/2003 4:07:50 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen
kerpow!

I think there will always be crime assosiated with drugs, regardless of their legality. A black market encourages organized crime, though, in a way that a free market does not.

i.e., people still steak beer, or get liquored up and attack others, but the vendors aren't doing drive-by shootings anymore.
47 posted on 10/08/2003 4:11:55 PM PDT by Britton J Wingfield (TANSTAAFL)
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To: robertpaulsen
The one good thing will be that there will be no more crime by heroin users stealing to support their habit.

Yeah, and kids won't have to bug their parents so much for "allowance."

48 posted on 10/08/2003 4:12:12 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass
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To: robertpaulsen
Well, well, well. They got the price down and they didn't have to legalize it to do it.

Straw man #1. Who ever claimed that ONLY relegalization would lower prices?

The one good thing will be that there will be no more crime by heroin users stealing to support their habit. Not at these prices, right MrLeRoy?

Straw man #2. I never claimed that crime by heroin users stealing to support their habit would completely disappear at ANY price.

75 posted on 10/09/2003 5:47:53 AM PDT by MrLeRoy (The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. - Jefferson)
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