🚀 go-pugleaf

Francis A. Ney, Jr. wrote:
> 
> In article <33EA68E3.4DA5@internetwis.com> die_spammer@internetwis.com
> writes:
> 
> >    I watched an A&E special on Prohibition last weekend.  If they
> show
> > it again,  I *highly* suggest that everyone watch it.  The parallels
> > between then and now-- crime, corruption, public cynicism toward the
> > law, etc. are so close to today that it is truly sickening to
> realize
> > how idiotic and clueless the "War" really is.  Prohibition should
> have
> > been called "The Organized Crime Establishment and Beneficent Act."
> > It's sole "accomplishment" was to take a popular, inexpensive,
> easily
> > produced consumer item and place its manufacture, distribution and
> sale
> > *entirely* into the hands of unregulated and untaxed (YES,
> POLITICIANS,
> > I SAID *UNTAXED*) criminals.
> >
> >    Anybody care to argue that drug prohibition has accomplished
> anything
> > more or different?
> 
> Nope.
> 
> Not me.
> 
Too many people have too much to lose by giving up the war on drugs. 
1) The war on drugs serves to keep the price of illicit drugs high,
thereby increasing the profits of everyone involved in the trade. This
would include: drug lords, politicians, customs agents, law enforcement,
lawyers (who can charge higher fees to richer drug lords), all of the
wholesalers and dealers. 
2) The war on drugs provides politicians, bureaucrats, law enforcement
officials, etc. with a wonderful source of tax free income. 
3) There are already too damn many lawyers, but the war on drugs
provides hordes of them with lucrative employment.
4) Contractors, vendors, and Correctional Officers unions love the war
on drugs: more prisons, more jobs, more contracts, mo' money.
5) And last but not least: The illicit drug trade provides an excellent
way for covert operations to raise funds. If the stuff were legal, the
CIA would have about as much luck selling drugs as they would if they
attempted to sell bootleg whiskey.
The war on drugs is not about to end.