From: "Nate Holdren" <nateholdren-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: AUT: a new thread
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 18:30:05 -0500


Carrol-
Agreed, drug sales are not solely a 'ghetto' phenomenon. Also, though, not 
all drug sale networks have poor urban areas are points of distribution. I 
think it depends a lot on the drugs. Methamphetamine can be made in basement 
or mobile laboratories with legal ingredients, which means production and 
distribution can occur in basically any  place. other drugs, particularly 
those that are more plant derived have different requirements for production 
which influences distribution possibilities.

does anyone know if any marxist work on the drug trade has been done (of 
more in depth than the 'product of and coping mechanism for capitalist 
alienation' variety, ie, that analyzes production and distribution 
consumption patterns)? I read some speech by Chomsky once about the role of 
illegally derived/drug derived moneys in the legal banking industry that was 
quite interesting but I can remember the specific details, I think the 
argument was that drug laws kept prices higher and legitimized a repressive 
state apparatus and that this also benefited 'legitimate' banks via the 
transfer of illegally derived funds into legal holdings.




>From: Carrol Cox <cbcox-AT-ilstu.edu>
>Reply-To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: AUT: a new thread
>Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:36:57 -0600
>
>
>
>Nate Holdren wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Interestingly, though, I heard a report on the radio a while back about
> > heroin use by suburban white teenagers. The groups of teens interviewed
> > commented that they would drive into very poor urban neighborhoods to 
>buy
> > drugs, then go home to use (or sell). It was part of the ritual of 
>using.
>
>The billions made in the drug trade are not made by selling to people in
>the ghetto. All those billions start out with sales _in_ the ghetto _to_
>outsiders who have money to buy it.
>
>The numbers racket, which used to produce considerable income in the
>black ghettoes (supporting not only those in it but the groceries,
>barbershops, etc etc they patronized) was destroyed by state lotteries.
>Drug sales replaced that.
>
>Carrol
>
>
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