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...true, as Gitell claims, that "each dollar spent on a gram of illegal cocaine is a dollar that gets funneled to people like those who killed young Tiffany Moore. "Drugs didn't kill Tiffany; drug laws did. Crack dealers, like the rest of us, don't particularly want to get killed--or kill anyone else--while trying to make a buck, but since drug deals can't be legally enforced like other commercial contracts, they need firepower to back them up. The government's irrational prohibitionist policies encourage a handful of teenaged criminals to terrorize minority neighborhoods in the inner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 9/30/1989 | See Source »

Each dollar spent on a gram of illegal cocaine is a dollar that gets funnelled to people like those who killed young Tiffany Moore. It is a dollar that can be spent on buying bullets to put into a Mac-10 machine pistol or into an AK-47 sub-machine gun. And people should realize that...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Joining the War on Drugs | 9/26/1989 | See Source »

...process. This was a major manufacturing operation disguised as a beach party, using black-market chemicals to produce 100 lbs. of crank, presold to a buyer in Grants Pass, Ore., for $15,000 a lb. Almost a million net, even before the powder hit the streets, sold by the gram for nearly the same price as cocaine. A lesser cook chortles, "Those people in Oregon are taking everything we can make, and they pay a premium." Adds Big John with the believer's certitude: "Dollar for dollar, crank is better than coke: coke is just a little sexier, but crank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southern California Tales of the Crank | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

Wednesday was baby-sitting night for Gram and Grandpa Bush. With their own five offspring on the convention floor, the Vice President and his wife minded their ten rather rambunctious grandchildren. The youngsters made such a mess that an exhausted Barbara merely shoved aside the flowers and papers on her bed and went quickly to sleep. This was much to the disappointment of the two mischievous grandchildren who had planted a great fuzzy artificial snake in Grandma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans: A Big Time in the Big Easy | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...question about supporting the real Texan is really not a question. Texas' Republican Senator Phil Gram predicted that Texans will support a Texan president instead of a Texan Vice-President...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Deep in the Heart of Texas | 7/15/1988 | See Source »

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