Obama: 'Drug legalisation not the answer to drug war'

[ljm2002]

40. It has worked very well actually...

...if you think about what the PTB really want to happen.

The MIC and police forces worldwide have profited handsomely from the War On Some Drugs.

The private prisons have made out like bandits.

People of color continue to be disproportionately jailed for drug-related crimes, including the use of marijuana, one of the most innocuous substances known to humankind.

The CIA has been able to fund its black ops without turning to Congress. While they get money from Congress too, it's really nice when they can have their own funding stream that exists without oversight.

It also allows politicians to demonize whole classes of people, like the poor; and to promote drug testing that is done (surprise, surprise) by companies in whom they have invested (see: Florida's governor Rick Scott).

It allows "treatments" that don't work at all, in the cases where people are allowed to seek treatment rather than be imprisoned (see: methadone treatment, which substitutes one addiction for another, and allows control and dehumanization of addicts).

It allows them to put all illegal drugs under a blanket term "drugs", and therefore to control the conversation. You will NEVER hear a politician making an argument based on the known effects of one drug vs another (for example: heroin, while highly addictive, does not do lasting physical harm to the system; while meth and cocaine do; also, they will never discuss the natural non-refined forms vs. the highly refined forms; and along those lines, they will never discuss the benefits of the natural forms, and their traditional usage, such as coca leaves helping with altitude sickness).

It allows them to continue to foment the idea that only the Big Beneficent Corporations can provide drugs. Anything we can grow ourselves must be eradicated!!!

It allows them to continue to push alcohol and tobacco, even though the ill effects of both are well known. It allows them to talk about alcohol and tobacco as though they AREN'T drugs, which is of course ridiculous.

Yes, it has worked very well indeed for the 1%. Not so great for the rest of us.