Subject: Al Capone
From: [robert roth] at [hal9k.com] (Robert Roth)
Message-Id: <[62338 29 uup c b] at [hal9k.com]>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 94 08:31:00 



Al Capone did a good business based on a change in the drug laws.  Now
don't think of him as any kind of a good guy.  Machine guns were legal
till he started settling his business differences with them.  

Now Al didn't hire many teenagers, he used ta' say,"Dem 14 year olds
ain't pickin' up kegs like I need. And they just fall over afta a few
beers."

So, purely for business reasons, Al was a gentlemen by todays standards.

Today, on the other nostril, kids can put $10,000 worth of merchandise
in a back pack and take it to school.  Unlike beer, which makes kids
fall down,  cocaine increases the ability to cover the neighborhood. 

Kids are the ideal mules for the older people who make the money.  The
average street level hustler makes $20,000 a year for 3 years till
something bad happens.  Then a new teeny comes along and has never
head of something bad, cant die and thinks $500 fora weekend adds up
to a $million for life.

Drive by, which is how you control your territory, is the new game
neighborhood kids play. We used to play cops and robbers, and want to
be the cops.  Now cops arn't even part of the game.  

Prison inhabitants have gone from 110 per 100,000 in the1970s to 455 per in 1992.  The extra 345 are pretty much drug related.  (*1)

The supply of cocaine has remained the same.
The price of cocaine has remained the same.

A Rand study concluded, cocaine use can be reduced 1% with $34 million
in treatment funds but the same 1% reduction requires $246 million in
domestic law enforcement, and almost a $billion in anti-drug programs
in foreign countries.(*2)

Protect our guns. Take the guns and drugs away from kids by selling drugs
in government stores through the system already in place for alcohol. 
Use the money for education and to hang anyone who gives drugs to kids. 

Stop the growth of the crime governments with budgets larger than most
countries.

Course, there would still be some money in selling to air traffic
controllers who wouldn't want to sign at the government store, but at
least it would be a local business. And most of the profit would go to
the government.


*1. War on crime fills prisons.
The Ann Arbor News
Thursday, June 2, 1994
Record 948,881 prisoners were incarcerated in 1993.
FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

*2. White House rejects study touting
drug treatment over enforcement.

By JOSEPH B. TREASTER
THE NEW YORK TIMES.
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