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Recently Scott Adams seemed bewildered as to why some state or big city government in America doesn't at least try total drug legalization.
Once again it appears I understand something his radical government supremacism doesn't allow him to understand.
Why doesn't The State do the one thing that would make the drug cartels collapse completely? Because ending prohibition-- the stupid and evil War on Politically Incorrect Drugs-- is that one thing. Not more "laws", not harsher penalties, not invading Mexico, and not building a wall. Not anything which empowers or enriches government employees. Only taking government out of the equation would accomplish anything worthwhile.
And that's why they won't do it.
It would reduce the power and wealth of the losers who depend on prohibition-- not only the losers running the drug cartels-- but also the politicians, the legislation enforcement gang, and the prison employees. Prohibition is welfare for useless archators.
Your life and safety are of no consequence to those losers if it means giving up some money and power.
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The "war on drugs" is too useful to give up entirely. It's a great revenue generator at the local court level, keeps the jails and prisons stocked and "creates" ahem, "good jobs" for obedient types.
ReplyDeleteThe trick (for them) is how to legally demonize other substances now that pot's going mainstream to sustain the money and power that flowed from those arrests. Losing pot will be a big blow to them.
When they demonize other substances, they'll have to be commonly used enough to sustain the revenue. Bath salts and "opioid crisis" just don't have the oomph to make them enough money. Think government think ! Hmmm...cigarettes?