"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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The rules are wrong, therefore the blame lies in the law. If there was no
market there would be no 'value stream'...

So now it's the addict's fault that our inner cities are laced with
drugs and thugs? It's the user's fault that normal people dare not
set foot into the ghettos that exist in every major city in America?
All we have to do to fix this mess is "change the law"?

That may be the most naive thing I've ever seen written here -- and
*that* is not an easy cliff to scale!

If you had any experience in the inner cities of America, you would
know that drugs are the scrourge of EVERYTHING and EVERYONE there.
The "market" you speak of exists because of a drug cartel that
produces and provides cheap drugs for easy distribution to people who
apparently have nothing left to lose.


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Jay- you presuppose it is possible to eliminate the "drug cartels", yet
pretty much all the evidence shows that the harder you clamp down on
"cartels", the profit increases which provides more incentive for the cartel
to exist in the first place. I know we both have had family members with
"issues", and yes, I do blame the addicts. Will legalizing drugs cause an
increase in suffering short term? Yes. But the present course of action
will probably result in more suffering.