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To: the_daug
Nice story. The US and Canada had opium dens for the Chinese contract labor too. and here is one for you Death of Donald P. Scott

And once again, the connection between your response and to what you have responded is unclear.

Legal drugs make drug dealers far richer than do illegal drugs.

126 posted on 05/04/2015 10:47:22 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp
Legal drugs make drug dealers far richer than do illegal drugs.

Absurd and patently untrue — organized crime in prior the `20s was a piddly little thing, but when Prohibition came along it made alcohol very, very profitable and that is where the mafia got its money and power.

See:
Mafia in the United States
How Prohibition backfired and gave America an era of gangsters and speakeasies

135 posted on 05/04/2015 11:01:01 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: DiogenesLamp

What does England protecting a Crown corporation drug dealing 150 years ago have to do with the the US War on Drugs?


166 posted on 05/04/2015 3:47:06 PM PDT by the_daug
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