"Cynic" wrote in message
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> On Sun, 4 May 2008 01:03:08 +0100, "William Black"
> wrote:
>
>>>>There are the producers, who are usually small farmers who cannot make
>>>>a
>>>>decent living from any other cash crop, professional smugglers, who
>>>>have
>>>>always been rich, well connected and violent criminals, and there are
>>>>the
>>>>dealers, who are almost invariably subsidising their own habit.
>>>
>>> Are you disputing that there are criminals who have become extremely
>>> wealthy as a result of drug activities, and have huge power and
>>> influence? Those people usually do not themselves do the smuggling,
>>> but they either organise operations that bring in and distribute drugs
>>> or they organise the cultivation and manufacture of drugs (or
>>> occasionally both). They may be affiliated with a recognised
>>> organised crime syndicate such as the Mafia.
>>
>>Name them, name them.
>
> So you are indeed denying that illegal drug trade has created wealthy
> & powerful criminals.
In the consumer countries, yes.
--
William Black
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.
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