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Re:how about passing laws that have some… (Score:5, Insightful)

by Maxo-Texas (864189) on Monday March 10, @01:49PM (#22704486)

Among the larger financial supporters of the coalition against drugs in america

Tobacco Companies
Alcohol Companies
Private Prison Companies

We incarcerate more people than china.
We strip away a very particular group of people’s voting rights through selective drug law enforcement.
We have double the drug use of Amsterdam (where drug use is legal).

Re:how about passing laws that have some… (Score:5, Insightful)

by Maxo-Texas (864189) on Monday March 10, @02:19PM (#22705062)

I agree that it is off-topic (tho it was technically a tangent to the Ayn Rand comment) but not intended as flamebait.

I just recently saw a movie on the drug war and it was pretty upsetting (including fairly substantial and substantiated evidence) that the CIA under reagan (who I voted for) ran cocaine into america to support their revolution in central america.

The bits about private prisons was very disturbing. I’ve known for quite a while that we imprison people in the US at a higher rate than the rest of the world.

But to see an LA policeman relating how the CIA contacted him to ignore selected drug lords in an open public meetings (and to see the CIA director’s obvious distress) was pretty shocking to me so I guess it was waiting to spew out somewhere.

It pulled no punches– drug users were shocking dregs in some cases. But so are extreme alcohol and tobacco users.

We have so many bad laws related to this area- and now that they are tying “any drug sales == support for terror” they are able to ignore civil rights at increasing levels.

Then you get some cheesehead like this guy wanting to ban the equivalent of posting anonymous hand bills and it is extremely irritating.

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