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In reply to the discussion: I find it interesting ... [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)And grow some drugs as a subject not worth considering is rather like a coroner saying that lack of oxygen had nothing to do with a person's death due to asphyxiation.
The war on drugs has allowed for the continuing militarization of the police; the continual sapping of the Treasury into militarizing those police, the continual siphoning off of young people, especially people of color, into the nation's for profit prison system; and it is this War on Drugs that has brought us to the point where the nation is a Totalitarian State.
Meanwhile it is hard to do anything politically about where we are at, as the Big Banks can make tens of billions of dollars of profit by laundering the drug monies of the Big Cartels, with basically no punishment, while a guy crossing a street with a joint might end up spending 47 days in jail for that joint. The Big Banks then use some of the hard cold cash they have made laundering the money as campaign contributions, which ensure that we have only Tweedle and Tweedledum to choose from.