Vietnam solution to the Drug war

Some exchange already has the trademark for the cannabis contract, complete with symbols and physical delivery destinations I am sure, if not I am getting it tomorrow morning.
 
the market always finds a way of correcting it's inefficiencies... even when there's a government trying to sustain such inefficiencies.
 
Tell the CIA to stop smuggling it. Who has not noticed that drug production in Afghanistan is at an all time HIGH, under the watchful eye of the USA? Coincidence? People living in caves somehow outwit the western military industrial regime? Does that make sense?
 
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Imagine if some politician came up with a scheme to lock up all the homosexuals who act upon their desires by having gay sexual relations. Everyone would be horrified at such a bigoted and immoral scheme, and justifiably so.

...so how is locking up junkies who act upon our desires without hurting anyone any different? <b>Can anyone come up with a remotely reasonable sounding answer to that question?</b> Every last person involved in the imprisonment of prohibition violators- from the legislators to the narcs to the judges and juries- should be consumed by the burning shame over what they've done, and what they are doing to millions of innocent Americans who have victimized no one.
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Reason is that war on drugs is a big bussiness for government, cops, lawyers, judges, politicians and dealers.
How do you make money from bunch of fags?
 
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"People living in caves somehow outwit the western military industrial regime? Does that make sense?"

:D HA!

Good question!
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Well, it's the second time they do it in the last 100 years... so...
 
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Tell the CIA to stop smuggling it. Who has not noticed that drug production in Afghanistan is at an all time HIGH, under the watchful eye of the USA? Coincidence? People living in caves somehow outwit the western military industrial regime? Does that make sense?
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Good Point!

Yes, there is a long history of CIA involvement in the trafficking of narcotics:-
The CIA was aiding the Kuo Min Tang raising funds to fight the communists by trafficking opium through the Golden Triangle.
Aiding the Contras in Nicaragua by assisting them in trafficking Cocaine through central America
Assisting the Mujahaddin in Aghanistan by smuggling drugs in order to fund weapons purchases

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Aiding the Contras in Nicaragua by assisting them in trafficking Cocaine through central America
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Yes. They had a base in northern CR... in Ollie's point... that they used for those pourposes... and they paid the CR gov around $1million per day to get them to ignore all the activity in the north.
 
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Reason is that war on drugs is a big bussiness for government, cops, lawyers, judges, politicians and dealers.
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Orwell understood that money is <B>not</b> the typical politician's primary motivator.
No, not money, but something else entirely...

________________
From 1984:

'You understand well enough ~how~ the party maintains
itself in power. Now tell me ~why~ we cling to power. What
is our motive? Why should we want power? Go on, speak,' he
added as Winston remained silent.
[...]
Nevertheless Winston did not speak for another moment or
two.
[...]
'You are ruling over us for our own good,' he said
feebly. 'You believe that human beings are not fit to govern
themselves, and therefore -

He started and almost cried out. A pang of pain had shot
through his body. O'Brien had pushed the lever of the dial
up to thirty-five.

'That was stupid, Winston, stupid!' he said. 'You should
know better than to say a thing like that.'

He pulled the lever back and continued:

'Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is
this. <b>The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We
are not interested in the good of others; we are interested
solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or
happiness: only power, pure power.</b> What pure power means you
will understand presently. We are different from the
oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing.
All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were
cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian
Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they
never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They
pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized
power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just
round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings
would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that
no one seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a
dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes
the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. <b>The
object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture
is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin
to understand me?'</b>
 
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