What Does Drug Dealing Tell Us About Small Businesses?

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scoomodum of AL @ Oct 23, 2008 01:47:39 AM

Drug dealing

I have really come on clue that drag dealing,especially in younger ages, mixed with education,knowledge and attention on what u are doing may built a personality that have the potentials of doing something big in business.

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gxfalbz irenbg of AL @ Aug 29, 2008 03:55:55 AM

Check this!

There are some European countries whom have treated drug addiction as a medical issue. And it is a known fact that these countries have a hugely lower rate of drug abusers, especialy that of marijuana.

I would just like to say, look at the legal drugs. You have alcohol and tobacco. These are all american products that support american values. Let's face it. Ciggerettes and Beer are all american narcotics that the goverment accepts legalized because of that fact. Marijuana, however, is linked to the counter culture and so it is illegal. If you don't beleive me, maybe this will have you think. There is NO one single death recorded from marijuana. But of course you have the hundreads of thousans if nto millions linked to alcohol and ciggerettes. It's simple, the goverment isn't there to protect you, the drug policies are in place to protect american values. You can kill someone and get 6 years in prison. You can have 0.05 grams of drugs on you and get life. I rest my case....

Drugs will never all be legalized as long as our polititions are on the payroll.

Andrew of PA @ Aug 22, 2008 00:21:26 AM

Prohibition is a license to make money.

Back during the prohibition of alcohol you had massive profiteering and the rise of famous gangsters. Joe Kennedy, Al Capone, Meyer Lansky, Carlo Gambino,etc. It provided the huge opportunity for poorer classes to rise up. Meyer ran Havana for Batista and built Las Vegas with the Teamsters pension fund money-a great investment. That cash flowed to "legitimate" businesses and hey Joe Kennedy got himself appointed first SEC commisioner.

What I see as a fundamental change is the takeover by the police and old money republicans of the business. Police make huge money "busting" dealers, users, and taking payoffs. Trillions tax free buys anyone, sorry and it needs to be legalized and addiction treated as a medical problem. What you have now is total corruption up to the White House. Everyone has their price and everyone takes. Ask John D.Rockefeller how he ruthlessly seized 95% of all the oil business. Gangsters are us.

Tony Soprano of MN @ Aug 16, 2008 11:12:11 AM

It's so simple.

It's not about what's better for entrepreneurs, it's the essential fact that prohibition of these substances is unconstitutional. As long as profits are being made on all ends, nothing will change. Watch American Drug War -

http://www.AmericanDrugWar.com

Jack Tripper of CA @ Aug 04, 2008 17:39:03 PM

Risky Business.

You shoulod have spoken to the pharmaceutical giants, they're the real experts in drug peddling, and having addicted half of the western world with their products, they're now seeking to cash in on the other half, by calling through 'front organisations' for the legalising of drugs.

In the interim some of them are so greedy, they can't wait and have already set up what is politely called 'unauthorised distribution' as witnessed here in the UK where Roche has been supplying a private chain of slimming 'clinics' with the drug Oristat (Xenical). Not content with that, they also provided the operator with $110,000 dollars to buy another 'clinic'. (Full report British Medical Journal 10 July 2008)

What do you think will happen if we're ever crazy enough to legalise drugs. Look to your history and see what happened with cocaine in the nineteenth century, following the publication of two papers by Freud, both of which were funded by pharmaceutical companies, eulogising cocaine as 'the elixir of life' and a 'cure for alcohol and morphine addiction'. The outcome was an epidemic of addiction dwarfing the problems we experience today. Needless to say both companies are still in existence and thriving.

The legalising of drugs will visit a disaster on this world which will make the atrocities carried out by Islamic forces of terror seem insignificant. Given that 90 per cent of the world's morphine production comes from Afghan, it becomes apparent that those same forces will benefit enormously from such a change. The other benificiaries will be organised crime, because the legalising of drugs does not mean they will relinquish their 'franchises', rather, in time honoured tradition, they will set up 'respectable' front organisations to supply the pharmaceutical industry, which in turn will be the marketing and PR division of Crime Inc.

This will be an highly efficient machine which will do for narcotics what has already been done. with legal drugs barbituates and 'benzos' For a full disclosure of how they'll do it, visit the Medscape website, and read the article 'Physicians for sale', in this week's current digest.

The outcome will be increased drug addiction and crime, because whilst the drugs may be legal, they're not free, and probably, with taxes etc, more expensive, so addicts who commit crime to fund their habit will have to commit even more crime. Again look to your history.

When those who lobby for the legalising of drugs, gush out their ideology and their cries for the human rights of users, let's not forget that less than 5% of the worlds population uses the destructive substances which they want to legalise, and thereby increase the use of. So let's step up the war and contain use, then reduce it, not as Big pharma wants which is to increase it.

Peter O'Loughlin @ Aug 02, 2008 09:40:56 AM

Organized crime

Organized crime is a necessary evil. When you are organized you have organizations rather than every street punk for him/her self. Crime is going to happen anyway but you dont want every one doing there own thing. You need bosses, rules, and structure; organiztion. When the US became tough on crime and started dismantling organized street crime, the streets where left unsupervised, creating a vaccum. That drug money was supposed to rebuild the same neighborhoods it came from but now the cops are busting everyone and taking the money for themselves.

Madrice Guy of MD @ Aug 01, 2008 10:12:32 AM

Prohibition triggers violence and corruption! Promote peace and prosperity!

Prohibition triggers violence in our streets and along our borders. It fuels corruption of public officials and injustice in our courts. It incites terrorists by forcing senseless policy on other countries. The black market supports despicable people who sell to children and who recruit them to sell

to their peers. The statistics reveal that racism is epidemic in the drug war.

Celebrating our similarities, free trade or the free market plus building bridges of tolerance to differences in religion, race and lifestyle will create a world of abundance and peace.

Follow the money, if you are in business our drug policies are hurting you. The return on your investment is reduced, your expenses and taxes are higher, plus you face competitors financed by criminals enriched by our drug policies.

www.business-council.org

Colleen McCool of TX @ Jul 30, 2008 01:00:15 AM

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Matt Bandyk, a reporter for U.S. News, explores capitalism from where it all begins, with the entrepreneur, whose risk taking and experimentation provide the roots from which the rest of the economy grows. As much courage as it takes to create one's own business, even the entrepreneur needs some help, and this blog will look at news, trends, and practical advice for starting and running a small business.

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