Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!sri-unix!hplabs!ucbvax!BRAHMS.BERKELEY.EDU!weemba From: weemba@BRAHMS.BERKELEY.EDU Newsgroups: mod.politics Subject: (none) Message-ID: <12264923891.22.MCGREW@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Mon, 22-Dec-86 18:19:09 EST Article-I.D.: RED.12264923891.22.MCGREW Posted: Mon Dec 22 18:19:09 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Dec-86 01:37:50 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: weemba@brahms.berkeley.edu Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 29 Approved: poli-sci@red.rutgers.edu > If there is a market for it, black-market needles should be just >as available as black-market drugs. The very same forces you claim >are making drugs so available (massive market) should be making >illegal needles readily available. I wonder why not? [CWN] Why do you think they call it dope? Junkies have very damaged minds. They are possessed by their addiction, and ignore their potential health. After all, they are destroying them- selves physically as it is. Many, indeed, are suicidal. They'll take their fix any way they can get it, no matter what the cost. And the pushers know it. Nor do junkies get their information--assuming they are capable of comprehending it--from the same places that us educated net readers do. They rely on street talk. Most junkies can delude themselves that one quick rinse with water cleans off the germs. Finally, from a purely economic point of view, the illegal drug business is well established, the illegal needle business is not. Drugs are ludicrously profitable, needles are not. Drugs are the ultimate sellers' mar- ket. You may hate the phrase "it is obvious", but I consider the above to be well known. ucbvax!brahms!weemba Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720 -------