The author wasted a lot of words. The simple reason that legalization won't work in the United States is that the "war on drugs" is the most profitable industry in America. While the drugs themselves corrupt users and their families, the mere fact that they are illegal has corrupted our entire society with artificial profits created solely by the illegality of the drug trade. Our law enforcement and courts have been incentivized to corruption, a culture of violence has replaced the open competition of legal markets, and our prisons are now filled with nonviolent inmates. The war on drugs has shredded our Constitution with a police state in which criminal intent is no longer required for conviction of possessing a banned substance, so now innocent citizens can be set up with planted contraband to justify conviction of a crime or seizure of their property.
That's why the chief insists that legalization will never work here. Freedom is too dangerous in the Land of the Free.
Bravo, brother. Well said!
Our oath is to the Constitution. The WOSD trashes it. Outlaw the drug war and arrest drug warriors and their groupies!
Semper fi,
D. C. Wright
USMC Retired
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