[JLS]

You have the answer.

[jonascord]

The answer will never be to end the drug war. Too many Federal, state and local employees count on the income from a never ending war for their livelihoods. Whole federal, state and local bureaucracies exist, that employ hundreds of thousands of otherwise useless union drones for no other reason than to "fight the drug war."

Where would hundreds of small towns get the money for all the latest war toys if they couldn't steal all the possessions from 'druggies' and peddle them on the net?

Thanks to the RICO laws, passed to control drug smugglers, cops can rob passing RVer's and steal any cash, sell off the coaches, and justify a bottle of pain killers as a major drug bust.

To control drugs, the government keeps street prices artificially high so federal agents can steal more money, smugglers can afford higher bribes, congressmen, governors and senators can afford campaigns for president.