🚀 go-pugleaf

Richard Shannon wrote:
> 
> > Oh but wait!  There's probably a good reason why this hasn't happened;
> > drug suppliers know by donating money to the right politicos and tipping
> > them off to competitors at the same time, they can remain in power
> > indefinitely.  AS LONG AS DRUGS ARE ILLEGAL.
> 
> And of course, there's all those Police-men (and women) that specialise in
> Drug Enforcement that would be out of business. All those employees of
> various drug-enforcement agencies, and of course, all that money and
> property police departments get to keep because of forfiture laws.
> 
> No, no, there's just too much money in drug enforcement. And too much
> control over large segments of the population.
> 
> And let's not forget all that money the C.I.A. (and probably others) have
> made channeling illegal drugs from right-wing third-world dictators through
> US Mafia connections gives them a lever over the third worlders (look at
> Noriega) and secret funding for special projects...
> 
> - Richard

No, drug reform hasn't happened yet because a solid majority of Amrican
voters still think it is a suicidal policy.  Until they change their
minds, nothing changes.  Bashing cops, the CIA, etc., is a big waste of
time.  The general public is still against major changes.  It is here
that efforts to change minds must be addressed.  

James   
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