From: "Phil Payne" 

"John Beamish"  wrote in message
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> The surprise isn't the positive economic contribution.  It's the segment
> (as I described them:  ommited and irredeemable "skid row"
types) which is
> making the positive contribution.

I've frgotten where I read it - it was a few years ago - but at some South
American venue a head of state commented that the drugs trade was an
acceptable way of reversing the Northern Hemisphere's long-standing
exploitation of the southern.

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