ro4eva
Bluelighter
Yes, criminals will always exist. And they will surely be ready to exploit whatever they can. That being said, in the 43 years (minus a couple of weeks) since the war on drugs was formally declared by a criminal of a former president, it has created a situation where (among other really fucked up things):
- All recreational "street drug" users are viewed as a minority group of "scumbags who deserve to die" by the rest of society
- The US now has ~25% of the world's prison population, ~60% of them being locked up for drug possession or trafficking, the majority of that ~60% being non-violent personal use offenders
- Over ~$1,000,000,000,000 of tax payer money has been spent/wasted on trying to reduce access to "drugs of abuse" with no significant success
- Over ~70,000 murdered Mexican civilians since 2006 due to drug cartel-related violence (who are making billions on dealing their dope to the world's biggest consumer north of the border)
- The private prison industry in the US - who forces their prisoners to work long hours for less than a dollar a day - has blossomed into the newest form of politically correct American slavery, thanks in large part to the number of people picked up on simple possession charges
- The majority of drug rehab centers and methadone clinics have also been reaping the benefits of this drug war while treating their patients like "scumbags who deserve to die, unless they do exactly as they're told by us," and, apparently that's ethical behavior on their part
- Street drug users with a record are treated like second-rate citizens for someone as benign as being busted with non-violent possession of a few grams of weed
- The DEA chief is publicly "fighting against" her superior's decision to not arrest Cannabis sativa consumers in Colorado and Washington - first, because of the children, and then secondly, because of pet dogs everywhere?!
- Much of law enforcement rewards their officers for drug busts, regardless of whether the alleged crime was possession or more.
- Much of law enforcement employs a quota system, which officers are "encouraged" to meet by busting anyone they can on drug charges. They must be exploiting their "right" to seize the assets (aka ruin another life, or two, or more) of their targets.
- Drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available than ever in general
Fuck the status quo. 4+ decades of picking on a minority because they'd rather not lick their curiosity or wounds with booze (which is more of a gateway drug than weed will ever be) and/or tobacco (which kills more second-hand smokers every year in the US than all street drug deaths combined) should be the real crime. And fuck the pigs who desperately prey on anyone they can to meet their monthly quotas (and earn some extra drug money "the legal way" on the side). Fucked up country.
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.. I will track down this story though... has to do with with Elvis stopping on a way home from a show in full gear to stop a woman being beat up by some guy in madtown.. he may have been a racist fuck.. and i wish times were different now... it starts with us.
