Quote Originally Posted by pisshead
it was designed to lose the war in vietnam...it was meant to a protracted war...war is a business. how else would the military industrial complex get more and more and more power and funding.
You got it right, unlike most who I've conversed with in the past that think cannabis is illegal because of the 'moral majority', 'right-wing conpericy', 'fundmenatlist Christans' ect. The fact is that if drug legalization were with excessive haste the economic consequences would be prodigious to say the least. Just imagine how many people would find there carriers at an end. Tons of police, DEA, FBI, customs, and corrections officals would learn that their termination and the termination of the war on drugs are linked. Industries that supported government operations in the war on drugs would meet a fate similar to those who used to be responsible for fighting the war. When all the dust settled you'd probably have 100,000s of unemployed people looking for work. Lets not forget that some of our leaders love to point to drugs as the source of societies problems, but in many cases those problems are nothing more then the result of incompetent leadership.
This debauched and arguably dysfunctional system exemplifies some of the inherent flaws of statism. Initially statist operations like the war on drugs start off with the aim of correcting what are perceived to be real problems, and in some cases real problems are indeed solved. Unfortunately, archaic government agencies and policies, as well as many special interest groups and bureaucracies, always do whatever they can to find way to justify their continued existence. The people, who they were intended, serve usually start to suffer some degree of institutionalization , and thus find the prospect of removing them somewhat unattractive despite the fact that many of those same people realize, deep down, that theyâ??d be better off without them. (research how many people responded to the democratization of the former Soviet Union to get a better sense of what Iâ??m talking about, or if you want to understand it on a micro-scale research how some prisoners are afraid to leave prison after having been there for many years.)
Nicoli Reviewed by Nicoli on . Bush's War on Pot America's long-running war on drugs has, literally, gone to pot. More than two decades after it was launched in response to the spread of crack cocaine -- and in the midst of a brand-new wave of methamphetamine use sweeping the country -- the government crackdown has shifted from hard drugs to marijuana. Pot now accounts for nearly half of drug arrests nationwide -- up from barely a quarter of all busts a decade ago. Spurred by a Supreme Court decision in June affirming the right of federal Rating: 5