And there are far more deaths, diseases and murders from alcohol - the key difference is that your chum Gordon Brown gets a cut of the take with alcohol.
My chum? Can't stand 'im, meself. But his take contributes, at least in some part, to covering the cost of the negative social aspect - through the regulation and taxation I was referring to earlier. Drug culture doesn't contribute, it just takes.
When shopping, it's kinda possible to try to be an ethical consumer of goods; ones that are legally produced, anyway. Legal consuption of produce, whilst not perfect, is better as it allows for pressure to be placed upon producers to change their production policies. I'm not sure that organised crime really cares about it's stock prices that much.
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Date: 2004-09-07 07:45 am (UTC)My chum? Can't stand 'im, meself.
But his take contributes, at least in some part, to covering the cost of the negative social aspect - through the regulation and taxation I was referring to earlier. Drug culture doesn't contribute, it just takes.
When shopping, it's kinda possible to try to be an ethical consumer of goods; ones that are legally produced, anyway.
Legal consuption of produce, whilst not perfect, is better as it allows for pressure to be placed upon producers to change their production policies. I'm not sure that organised crime really cares about it's stock prices that much.