Yeah. They should sell crack at walmart. It would be really cheap then. And such a better society.
More than likely. The so-called "War on Drug" has not stopped the flow of drugs - although it has made a lot of "respectable" people a lot of money. The flow of laundry money through the Chicago Mercantile Exchange is in the billions. It destroys lives and funds crimes. It also, by driving drug use underground, makes it more difficult to tackle the problem of drug abuse.
The knee jerk reaction of "I think drugs are bad so they should be illegal" is just that - a knee jerk unthinking reaction. And the imposition of thugish cops and confiscatory "forfeiture" laws with no recourse to recover illegally seized property is the stuff of horrors. My nephew had his truck seized when a person he knew in his apartment complex got busted for dealing - he never got his truck back, but still had to pay it off. In another case the city wanted a piece of land which the owners would not sell. So they staged a drug bust and parked an APC in their living room. No drugs were found.
The so-called war on drugs has not stopped either the use or sale of drugs. However, it does provide a great way for the "well connected" to use the authorities to shut their competition down. And the CIA is not called the "Cocaine Importation Agency" for no good reason. Illegal drugs, along with other criminality, fund a lot of their black operations. The drug wars and drug gang killings, like bootleggers - such as Alphonse, Scarface, Capone, create crime they do not stop it. Legalization in an instant does away with all the drug lords, all the killings, the need for totalitarian police, hundreds of millions in prisons, and on and on. It also puts the problem where it should be - in the hands of counselors and treatment centers, along with public education about what drugs do to a person.
So, tell us about the wonder of the war on drugs and how successful it has been. Drugs are now more available than they were during "The Summer of Love".
The so-called war on drugs has not stopped either the use or sale of drugs. However, it does provide a great way for the "well connected" to use the authorities to shut their competition down. And the CIA is not called the "Cocaine Importation Agency" for no good reason. Illegal drugs, along with other criminality, fund a lot of their black operations. The drug wars and drug gang killings, like bootleggers - such as Alphonse, Scarface, Capone, create crime they do not stop it. Legalization in an instant does away with all the drug lords, all the killings, the need for totalitarian police, hundreds of millions in prisons, and on and on. It also puts the problem where it should be - in the hands of counselors and treatment centers, along with public education about what drugs do to a person.
So, tell us about the wonder of the war on drugs and how successful it has been. Drugs are now more available than they were during "The Summer of Love".
the part bolded...i've read this a number of times. how do we know this is fact?
the part bolded...i've read this a number of times. how do we know this is fact?
There is evidence that during the Vietnam War, the CIA was smuggling heroin into the US and using the funds to finance their operations in Laos and Cambodia. There is also evidence that the CIA was smuggling cocaine into the US via Mena, AR and using the money to fund their operations to against the Sandinista's. Then there was the San Jose Mercury expose which shone the light on CIA importation of crack cocaine into LA, also in support of the Nicaraguan Civil War.
I'll do some online research and let you know the results. I've read it a number of times and heard it in a number of interviews. As mentioned below the CIA was running Heroin during the Vietnam War and we know that from leaks and stories coming from Vets who were there in person. Just for recent example a charter jet from a known CIA front crashed last year with a load of cocaine. Barry Seal, the legendary drug runner pilot who pioneered coming in under the Radar across the border, was whacked by a hit team the week after he called George Senior to try and get the IRS off his back.
A good book is "Barry and The Boys". However, I will dig up what I can on line.