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   From: bliss@sfo.com   
      
   M_P wrote:   
   > On Jan 21, 2:46 am, gareth erskine-jones  wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:34:17 -0800 (PST), M_P    
   >> wrote:   
   >>> On Jan 19, 10:59 am, "William Black"    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>> "gareth erskine-jones"  wrote in message   
   >>>> news:mdnbl5lnuo2udllclf7egqu5cvsp678u42@4ax.com...   
      
   	snip   
   >   
   > If the only change in Western opium/opiate policy was for governments   
   > to start buying Afghan growers' output, the funding currently going to   
   > the Taliban would be redirected to some other (presumably non-Afghan)   
   > criminal organization. Whether this redirection would be a gain worth   
   > the cost of accomplishing it is open to question.   
      
   	snip   
      
   	Buying the opium and selling it to the end users would save us   
   from this sort of news item.   
   ____________________   
   Drug War Chronicle, Issue #617 -- 1/22/10   
   Phillip S. Smith, Editor, psmith@drcnet.org   
   http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/617   
      
   A Publication of Stop the Drug War (DRCNet)   
   David Borden, Executive Director, borden@drcnet.org   
   "Raising Awareness of the Consequences of Drug Prohibition"   
      
   Table of Contents:   
      
   1. FEATURE: ANTHRAX-TAINTED HEROIN TAKES TOLL IN EUROPE, PROMPTS   
   CALLS FOR EMERGENCY PUBLIC HEALTH RESPONSE   
   At least seven heroin users have died from dope contaminated   
   with anthrax in Scotland, and one in Germany. Harm reductionists   
   and public health experts are demanding that government respond   
   with more than "quit using."   
   http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/617/anthrax_heroin_deaths_scotland_germany   
   ____________________   
      
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   	bliss   
      
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