Ding Dong the Wicked Witch is DEAD!!!

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Fri Nov 18 23:10:23 PST 2016


On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 12:14 PM, John Newman <jnn at synfin.org> wrote:
> wouldn't a bigtime drug supplier be interested in making political donations to politicians who declare themselves unalterably opposed to drug legalization?
It would be by far the most logical use of a relatively small portion
of his money

No, because while illegality produces high profit, it's also
high risk of jail / death. Lobbying instead for a legal
regime of business friendly regulation (unfree trade, franchise,
licensure, exclusive zoning, etc) can produce good profit at low risk.

> why the
> average person would even a.) give a shit what I (or anyone) puts in
> their own body

Even if completely legal and unregulated without a single
drug production distibution sale posession law on the books,
that production distribution sale process has a cost. Govt
will not give drugs away for free. And even if walmart stocks
them next to the cheerios and milk, consumer must
still buy them. But crackheads don't have jobs, so they'll
still either steal them raising your prices, or steal from you to
buy them, and jack up your taxes to cover their addicted,
public intox, no life caring about aids transmitting, ass in
medical. Avg people don't like that.
Legality quiets some of the messy aspects, but is
nowhere complete solution without solving addiction
and health. Go invent synthehol.



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