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From: larry@grkermit.UUCP (Larry Kolodney)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Entrapment
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Date: Fri, 12-Aug-83 11:42:09 EDT
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Speaking of entrapment, I read an article in the NYT yesterday that I
found really disturbing.  It seems that DEA (Drug Enforcement
Administration) is putting bogus advertisments in various magazines
(Popular Science, Biking Life(?), and High Times) offering catalogs for
"chemicals."  The catalogs either hint very strongly or indicate
outright that the chemicals supplied can be used to make drugs.  They
will supply you with the chemicals and instructions, and you have to do
the rest.  When people reply to these ads, the DEA sells them the kits,
and then arrests them.  


WHAT POSSIBLE PUBLIC GOOD IS SERVED BY ENTICING AMATURS(SP?) TO
EXPERIMENT WITH DRUG MAKING AND THEN ARREST THEM FOR IT?


Meanwhile people are starving in Roxbury.



-- 
Larry Kolodney 
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