Subject:
|
Re: If you oppose drug legalization, you support terrorism!
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.off-topic.debate
|
Date:
|
Wed, 6 Feb 2002 03:56:22 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
313 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Maggie Cambron writes:
> > I don't think I'd support the arguement, but I could see it being
> > viable. The impetus behind this being ultimately one I'd *personally* agree
> > with, which would be to get 3rd world countries producing actually valuable
> > assets
>
> You mean like coffee and cocoa? Well they're certainly getting my support, as
> I start each morning with a pot of 100% Columbian-- and I sometimes have
> chocolate at breakfast.
Not really-- essentially you want a good mix of various products, not all of
them physical. In order to graduate from being a 3rd world country, I expect
they'd need other profitable areas... not just a single product like cocoa
or cigars or cocaine.
> It seems to me any distinction made between the goods we find acceptable, >i.e., the coffee and cocoa, and those we don't (cocaine) is completely
> arbitrary and capricious.
I'm not actually against cocaine production for any other reason than the
negative connotations it's associated with. IE it's not bad business because
it's immoral, but it's bad business because people THINK it's immoral. Hence
bad press, bannings, boycotts, etc. But if it's all you've got, go for it.
> Well, perhaps not as gutsy. I'd say the greatest argument against drug
> legalization is Starbuck's. It's scary to think what the equivalent here >would be if cocaine were legal! ;-)
Heh-- Corner Crack Shops? The new vision for America :)
DaveE
|
|
Message has 1 Reply:
Message is in Reply To:
37 Messages in This Thread:
  
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
This Message and its Replies on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
