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Apr 13, 2013

Making Way Too Much Sense

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) co-founder Peter Christ talks sense about "The War On Drugs".



The main problem is the one that (as usual) is all about the cash.  There are people who've spent their entire careers riding the swirling torrents of money and power that surge through another Industrial Complex here in God's America - this one involving a very lucrative marriage of Corporatized Prisons, Illegal Drug Cartels, and a Justice System Consortium of courts and cops who can sometimes fund themselves just thru the goodies they legally confiscate under the protection of Zero-Tolerance Policies (and the hyper-macho politicians who use the Drug War to scare us into keeping them in power).

The billions we piss down the rat hole every year would do wonders if we spent the money treating our drug problem as the Healthcare issue it actually is.

Of course, just like all the other really stoopid "conservative" ideas we fell into bed with over the last 40 years, The War On Drugs isn't going away easy.

(hat tip = facebook buddy Bill Davison)

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