Sorry n4k33n, I did not realize that a source couldn't be listed if they were extinct. I apologize, please don't think I was advertising for them, like I said, they are so long gone , but I will remember that, I really did not know......but anyway....
Dex, what the poster is saying is the DEA NEED'S drugs on the streets. The war on Drugs is designed to not be "won". It is designed to perpetuate itself and always be around as a political lever , should one be needed. But what I am saying is everyone involved in "the war on drugs" needs to keep their job, they need to have money to retire with and I bet most of them have children to feed and put through college. So if they busted the codeines and the H. coming through the idea is they really would be getting drugs off the street and slowly but surely as the war is won the number of agents, detectives, police officers etc. needed to fight in the war will shrink in size as it is being won. We would need fewer and fewer state and federally funded paychecks to write (our goal is to have an economically efficient government, right?) so the number of paychecks getting written will go down, firings, layoffs etc.
So, that is one explanation. It has been backed up by facts, supposedly. I read , and I don't remember where but I will look it up and post if I find it, where an ex-DEA guy, who left due to the high levels of corruption. He wrote and printed emails he received from fellow employees of the DEA after hearing about a new species of moth being worked on, one that ate poppies and/or Coca(sp?) plants and leaves. They bitched to each other about how this can not be allowed to happen, "Damned Eggheads" I recall being used, also complained about pensions , ability to pass money on to grandchildren etc.
Remember , this is their career, Fighting drugs not getting rid of all drugs, there is no money in ending drugs, no money for the future anyway, once it's done it's done. They said ,in the emails, another very disturbing idea a few of the guys were kicking around. The idea was that if this moth thing happened (and I don't know anything of this moth, maybe it's true?) and there was no more coke or H. to bust in time, then they would look to get the abortion pill and even birth control outlawed "opening up a new market" as one email said "to a whole generation of rape babies" I guess since they would not be able to give RU-486(sp?) to rape victims who went to the ER within a few hours of the attack.
Sick stuff, I will try to find it and verify the authenticity since some years passed and if anything was to come of the moth or the so called whistleblower's outed emails.
Sorry for the long post......I hope my understanding of your post , Exiled, is something close to what you meant.....it seemed to match my understanding of the drug war.