Is The War on Drugs "All About the Money"?

"Stephen Downing,a retired deputy chief of police for the Los Angeles Police Department and Terry Nelson, retired from Department of Homeland Security on why they support treating addiction as a health problem and are for the total legalization of drugs" (youtube)
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Drachen_Jagersays...

Can't you point to pretty much any program that successive administrations have force-fed to the American people and demonstrate how it's all about the money.

Defence? Certainly doesn't go to the troops, no it goes to incredibly expensive experimental projects that never seem to pan out. Yet somehow the companies that fail to deliver time after time keep getting more money to spend on new projects.

Law and Order? Yeah, that's all about locking people away for the maximum time possible in corporate-run penitentiaries, not about reducing crime at all.

School reform? Charter schools baby! They may not be any better for kids (in fact they're worse) but it's finally an opportunity for Corporate America to make some bucks off of public schooling, yee ha!

deedub81says...

While I can't argue with the daunting task that law enforcement faces in the "War on Drugs," I completely disagree with the premise that we are persecuting addicts for breaking the law.

They know the consequences (legal and physical) and they choose to use.

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