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		kardos on Jan 29, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Heroin Dealer Tells the Silk Road Jury What It W... Don't forget marketing. Alcohol is marketed extensively by the industry despite the associated problems. A legal heroin industry would have a huge incentive to market heroin.

xtian on Jan 29, 2015 [–]

I have fairly extreme views on marketing in general, but I don't think its existence contradicts anything I said above.

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