Originally posted by Barry A.
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The narcotics industry has a turnover, estimated to be in excess of $1 trillion per annum. Put more simply, it is the largest industry in the world.
Ongoing international measures to eradicate this industry have largely proved futile, despite the billions spent.
Drugs have become a self-perpetuating industry that continues to create billionaire’s overnight. It is, by far, the most Laissez Faire enterprise of
them all, enjoying spectacular financial returns for relatively modest investment. Arguably, reason enough, to ensure that continuing calls to
legalize some types of soft drugs remain doomed to failure at the political level. Why kill the Golden Goose that effortlessly lays so many golden
eggs?
History increasingly suggests that the hidden reality was that it was not so much a “war on drugs,” as a “war for drugs.” A war, moreover, aimed at
winning the hearts and minds of those who live in embattled regions of the globe, by silently impoverishing, stupefying and killing those at home.
The innocent,, as always, are the major casualties of any war. |
As a Federal Officer, I was intimately involved in the "war on drugs" for about 10 years in the late '80's and early '90's in N. CA, especially over
by the Coast-----------your last paragraph above is totally absurd, and I don't even know what you are talking about.
Barry |