Subject: Re: [LPNY DISCUSS] Re: Armed presence among us (QCLP issues)/Goodman & Gary Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 16:49:33 -0400 To: From: Bob Armstrong On Tue, 20 May 2003 15:24:13 -0400, Bonnie wrote: >=A0The heroin USER wouldn't be a mugger if everyone could grow >=A0opium poppies and make heroin and it was as cheap as coffee. >=A0It's the black market that multiplies the number of >=A0sociologic actors. My observation of heroin addicts is that you've got to knock them upside the head with a 2 by 4 to get their attention , but they don't object to work and would rather make their money that way if they can . The populations in poppy growing regions seem to have= peacefully coexisted with the plant for all the millennia before the= British made a trade of it with the Chinese . -- =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 NEW : Newsletter : http://cosy.com/K/CoSy/NL200305.htm Ultimate Computing Environment : =A0http://cosy.com/K/CoSy.htm A WTC vision : http://cosy.com/CoSy/ConicAllConnect/ =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02003/05/20 4:41:02 PM