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"Bob Ackley -> Ross Cassell" wrote in
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RC>> Can you setup a pharmacy in the towns business district and sell
RC>> heroin?
BA> Actually, doing that used to be perfectly legal. Heroin was at one
BA> time a prescribable medication, it was also an ingredient in laudanum,
BA> which was an alcohol based substance.
Back in the days of "patent medicines," there was a
"soothing syrup" for
babies on sale.
Oh, it worked great, since it had heroin in it! (!)
http://wings.buffalo.edu/aru/preprohibition.htm
Back in the late 60's, my Mom was offered by her doctor "Mother's Little
Helper," Valium.
She thankfully said no.
RC>> Obviously the answer is no, but these examples by extension dont
BA> make RC> all businesses illegal on the sole basis of 2 radical
BA> examples.
RC>> Telecommuting isnt illegal either, most who do do not do
BA> anything more RC> than those who dont as far as comings and goings,
BA> by that I mean, RC> they still have to go run lifes normal errands,
BA> the only thing one RC> might notice is the car sits in the driveway
BA> moreso than normal RC> during the 9-5 norm.
BA> Telecommuting in and of itself I have no problem with. Somewhere the
BA> telecommuting morphed into home-based businesses.
I had a relative who kept trying to recruit me into Amway.
Amway is run like a cult.
My relative got out of Amway, after losing almost a thousand $$$ in
those "motivational" tapes and stuff.
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