Re: OT: Cocaine - When your day is done and you wanna run

On Dec 22 2005 1:04 AM, Howard Beale wrote:

> How about this: Cheap enough that they don't have to try kill me for
> money like the alcoholics don't have to try kill me for money?

When you have no money because you have no source of income, "cheap
enough" = free. Are you suggesting that legalized drugs will be
distributed for free?


> Of course. Just like anything else. The president of McDonalds is very
> rich and the employees just get a job. The guy standing lookout for the
> drug dealer is pretty much qualified to just do that. My point is that he
> knows he can always get that job, that there is room for advancement
> seeing as how there are constant openings and that without the cottage
> industry provided by the illegality he would have to something else and
> we'd be better off because whatever he picked, pretty much, it would be an
> improvement.

So...he *could* get that job at McDonalds, but *chooses* make less money
for higher risk by standing lookout for the neighborhood pusher. Does
that sound like a situation that will correct itself simply because you
eliminate that one illicit opportunity? Those inclined to engage in
criminal activity in spite of the availability of equally or more
lucrative legitimate jobs will always find and avail themselves of such
opportunities.


> > a college grad out earns a drug dealer geometrically with muted extremes
> > as well, i'd be willing to bet.
>
> I was just riffing on DP.

Nice cop-out.


> In my fantasy world I would remove children from abusive families and
> provide foster families with lavish money saved from the end of this
> hopeless drug war.

And removing children from abusive families will be facilitated by drug
legalization?


> Just like bootleg liquor. Still cheap enough not to need to kill me to
> get.

Do you have any idea how cheap crack cocaine is?


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