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Saturday, 16 April 2011

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From Reason.com: Last week The New York Times ran a sympathetic, lighthearted profile of an illegal "drug" dealer: Lonnie Warner, a.k.a. Lonnie Loosie, who sells black-market cigarettes on Eighth Avenue in midtown Manhattan.

It is hard to imagine a pot, cocaine, or heroin retailer getting similarly friendly treatment from a major news outlet. Unlike tobacco, of course, those drugs are addictive and dangerous.

I myself am battling a cigarette habit, so I might actually visit this guy! But I see where Reason is coming from.

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