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yurbud

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3. mostly the money. If two ships pull into port, one full of sugar and the other cocaine...

Reply to Eyes of the World (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 6, 2012, 12:36 PM

Dec 2012

which cargo is going to be worth more?

which will pay less taxes?

which will have the most money to buy the politicians, laws, and law enforcement it wants?

The wealthiest have ALWAYS been in the illegal drug trade because that's where the money is.

Look at the Opium War--Great Britain wanted to sell opium to the Chinese people and their government didn't want a country of addicts, so Britain "opened the market" at gunpoint and now our stereotype of an opium addict is a bunch of Chinese guys in an opium den sucking on hookahs.

Whether a product is safe or even legal is of no consequence if there is money to be made.

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