Everytime the government attempts to initiate a prohibition, whether it be alcohol, gambling, prostitution, or the infamous “”, (a term coined by Richard Nixon in 1971), it backfires.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.  ~Edmund Burke

That statement is applicable to those laws associated with the legislating of morality like those prohibitions mentioned above. We are especially concerned with the drug issue which has touched the lives of so many people…..including myself.

The War on Drugs (WoD) has become another one of the U.S. governments exercises in futility that they always try solving by throwing more money at the problem.

Simply stated, the WoD is a prohibition campaign undertaken by the United States government with the assistance of participating countries interested in combating the illegal drug trade.

President Richard Nixon began his war in 1969 and in 1971 called drug abuse, “public enemy #1” in the United States which led to the formation of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in 1973.

The amount of money given to this “no-win cluster fuck” is obscene lending itself to the excepted common definition of insanity; “the repeating of the same behaviors over and over expecting different results”.

Meditate on this:

• U.S. estimated cost for drug control in 2005 – $12 billion
• Cost of incarcerating drug law offenders – $30.1 billion
• In 1998 the total estimated cost of drug abuse was $143.4 billion
• Over 1 million Americans are incarcerated every year
• 225,000 are arrested for simple possession of marijuana (the fourth most common cause for arrests in U.S.)

More recently, today’s newspaper reported that the Bush Crime Family is seeking $500 million, which is the first installment of a $1.4 billion aid package to help Mexico fight drug trafficking. Oh, let’s not forget the $50 million that Bush also asked Congress for to fight the same no-win war in Central America.

Make no mistake……this sad farce we continue to call the War on Drugs in big business and there are many people on both sides getting rich. Why do you think it continues despite being an obvious failure?

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