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Actually, I find a lot of young conservatives . . . and not the “religious right” . . . that never drink. They may not be for prohibition, but they don’t partake.

Although I'm religious right, I'm one of the young conservatives that doesn't partake. Too much baggage associated with it. But I always thought prohibition was stupid and gave us the mob as it is now. I view most drug laws similarly. Mobsters and politicians profit immensely from the illicit drug trade. In fact, I often think that the whole illegal immigration thing is really about drug running. Think about it. You've got a situation where the border is open, so drugs can flow in freely. However, the cops will conduct para military no-knock raids to catch the drugs after they're in the country. This element of risk keeps the price high but it's still easy to get them in. And who makes it easy to get them in? The federal government. I wonder who's profiting illicitly from illegal drugs in government? I'd almost bet my last dollar it's a lot of quite powerful people.

You would be interested to know that the “War on Drugs” basically started in 1935. Hmmm....was pot such a pandemic in 1935? No, not really. So, why start a WOD then?

Well, let’s see...from 1919 to 1933, we employ all these government agents (”Revenuers”) to go track down illegal stills, interdict liquor from abroad, and bust up speak easys. But after the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, what are they going to do? It’s the height of the Depression and they can’t find work, in addition to being the unwritten law that government employees are NEVER laid off.

So the government created a new bogeyman, and we had the WOD. All the Revenuers kept their jobs and had a new mission; stamp out illegal drugs that really weren’t a problem. In fact, there is some belief that the illegal nature of pot and acid fueled their popularity in the “revolutionary” 1960s.

Thanks, Big Brother.