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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: New Reason to overhaul drug laws
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Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 11:51:21 EST
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> 
> It is clear that laws against
> possession have only two main effects: to finance the Mafia, and to
> create delons of otherwise law-abiding citizens.  Neither of these
> effects are good.  A third possible effect is to increase to use of
> harmful drugs, but I think there might be some argument about that one.
> 
	The UN commented the other day on something I have suspected
for years.  A fourth effect is to cause serious damage to the economy.
How can the tens or hundreds of billions (no one knows, but the 
estimate is 5.4 billion for California pot crop alone) of dollars
that are moved about from country to country untaxed not have
a profound affect on the world economy?

	Still another effect is to make the government look like
self-serving idiots.  We pay them billions of dollars to 
enforce drug laws and there is a cocaine *glut*--prices are
going down.  

	Is there really a conspiricy by the mafia and the government
to keep drugs illeagle or are the majority of United States citizens
having some neural short circuit that blinds them to the obvious?
Polls tend to indicate the latter.  

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