01-31-2008, 04:05 AM
Nate SC, Mahalo!**S**
You're asking a question that the reform community has been talking about for a long time, ie., why does the govt ban hemp cultivation, refuse to honestly discuss a change in the federal drug policy of prohibition, spend unlimited amounts of money to both keep prohibition in force and prosecute millions of Americans for simple possession of cannabis.
Richard Cowen of marijuananews.com likes to say that marijuana prohibition continues because of "bad journalism".
He's got a point, since the papers and media rarely mention that roughly one million Americans are arrested under these laws, (mostly for personal possession of small amounts of pot) every two years and have been doing so for many, many years.
Millions of arrests, billions of dollars spent.
Why?
Ever hear about the two competing stores, across the street from each other and both owned by the same people?
That's the war on drugs.
By googling terms like, "drug money" and "drug money laundering", the goods come up, thanks to dedicated, legitimate investigators who post the results of their work on the web.
It's easiest to explain the war on drugs to people by describing it for what it is, a price support system.
Aloha!
You're asking a question that the reform community has been talking about for a long time, ie., why does the govt ban hemp cultivation, refuse to honestly discuss a change in the federal drug policy of prohibition, spend unlimited amounts of money to both keep prohibition in force and prosecute millions of Americans for simple possession of cannabis.
Richard Cowen of marijuananews.com likes to say that marijuana prohibition continues because of "bad journalism".
He's got a point, since the papers and media rarely mention that roughly one million Americans are arrested under these laws, (mostly for personal possession of small amounts of pot) every two years and have been doing so for many, many years.
Millions of arrests, billions of dollars spent.
Why?
Ever hear about the two competing stores, across the street from each other and both owned by the same people?
That's the war on drugs.
By googling terms like, "drug money" and "drug money laundering", the goods come up, thanks to dedicated, legitimate investigators who post the results of their work on the web.
It's easiest to explain the war on drugs to people by describing it for what it is, a price support system.
Aloha!
Lee Eisenstein
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"Be kinder than necessary, as everyone you meet is engaged in some kind of strudel."
http://members.cruzio.com/~lionel/event
"Be kinder than necessary, as everyone you meet is engaged in some kind of strudel."