Let's legalize meth, and every other such recreational drug.

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49. The Drug War as we know it

has been in place for 40 years since Nixon--and has succeeded in ruining the public trust, and international standing. It has done irreparable damage to our relationship with our government, because they began to prey on regular citizens. Their blatant racist and violent policies have created a rift in our country that has manifested in counter culture lifestyle and destructive behaviors in people who have lost hope.

In the last 40 years, cartels, DEA, FBI and CIA have developed dangerous relationships that have resulted in countless deaths. The Drug War, like any war on people done for profit--is a criminal enterprise. Dismantling this criminal enterprise is now nearly impossible to do all at once. It has to be done in stages, or the same criminal people will be in place with a different name and will find other ways to launder money.

I think this is very different than alcohol prohibition, that only lasted 15 years from 1920-1935--in that the mobsters and law enforcement could shift their focus when the laws were changed.

If legalization is to work, our drug policy needs to be rewritten with new missions for law enforcement agencies and for our medical establishment. We need to do this in stages, to transform each agency so that they have other jobs. Otherwise they will just find other ways to subjugate people to fill their jails.

These agencies are part of our infrastructure, which has been in the hands of abusive corporate entities with no social conscience. IF we are to end the Drug War, we need another national mission--to rebuild a country that is focused on creativity and harmony with each other and the Earth.

The war paradigm needs to go.