"The war on drugs and the resulting violence and organized crime are an uber-analogy to what happened under Alcohol Prohibition. It's just taking longer to undo."
The war on drugs is a cash cow. The government does not want to end the war on drugs. To many political backers make money from prisons, etc. There are private prison, prison guard unions, the money made by local police departments from confiscating drugs, and so on. There's a reason the US incarcerates more people than any other country in the world and why something as stupid as three strikes was implemented. Here is a link to a Dan Carlin Podcast about this: http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/csarchive/Show-243---High-Confrontation/drugs-pot-marijuana J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:360232 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
