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| Title: | UK: PUB LTE: How to deal with drugs (LTE 5) |
| Published On: | 1999-08-24 |
| Source: | Guardian, The (UK) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-09-05 22:37:28 |
HOW TO DEAL WITH DRUGS (LTE 5)
Your correspondent (Letters, August 18) claims that legalising drugs will
result in a massive loss of income for drugs dealers and consequently hit
the local economy. Surely rather than transfer wealth from dealer to the
treasury, it would leave more cash in the pockets of the equally
impoverished end-users. This of course assumes that the government allows
this natural reallocation of income to happen by preventing the replacement
distribution network from profiteering.
Ian Shotton
London
Your correspondent (Letters, August 18) claims that legalising drugs will
result in a massive loss of income for drugs dealers and consequently hit
the local economy. Surely rather than transfer wealth from dealer to the
treasury, it would leave more cash in the pockets of the equally
impoverished end-users. This of course assumes that the government allows
this natural reallocation of income to happen by preventing the replacement
distribution network from profiteering.
Ian Shotton
London
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