Drug War Advocates Exposed

see accompanying video [10 minutes]
	
	It’s possible that Cocaine, Meth, Marijuana and all other banned drugs are so risky and 
harmful that we have to impose criminal penalties for use and sale. Of course we will 
never know for sure because we have never adopted actual measurable standards for harm 
and risk – and consequently no studies were ever done before banning any drug. Due to the 
various problems caused by banning drugs there is no way we can gather reliable data for 
harm and risk on any banned drug. It is a testament to the tawdry shamelessness of our 
news editors that such studies are routinely published and aired.
	Once a drug is banned it is produced and sold by criminals. There is no disclosure to 
users, no quality control, no professional standards for labs or chemists producing these 
drugs, and no accountability. Just try taking your local dealer or his gang to court for 
damages. The drugs sold are tailored to the hard core drug abuser. They would only fill a 
small niche in a legal drug market. The users are disproportionately younger – as sellers 
of legal drugs have huge incentives to restrict sales to adult users. Those users are 
less educated [you get zero education in schools on real drug problems – just drug war 
propaganda depicting atypical adverse reactions as typical] and less skilled at managing 
their drug addictions. With these kinds of adverse conditions I would expect far more 
serious problems from users than those reported in the studies – showing that the “need 
to protect users from themselves” may be highly exaggerated.
	However, health concerns are not the main reason people favor legalization of drugs to 
restore regulatory standards to the distribution of these drugs. Did I mention that these 
drugs are distributed by criminals – usually by organized criminal gangs, syndicates or 
cartels? And the price of banned drugs is exorbitantly high: enough to make 
pharmaceutical companies green with envy. This means exorbitant tax free profits that 
bankroll their violent lifestyles and endanger those in their communities. It also leads 
to an equally well armed and violent police response to their activities – in those very 
same communities. In fact police often work in alliance with drug syndicates to arrest 
and convict addicts and independent suppliers of these drugs. Police work as syndicate 
lackeys – and that doesn’t include those police who take money to facilitate their 
movement of drugs to users.
	It doesn’t take a genius to surmise that drug prohibition always leads to major 
increases in crime. Users of Methamphetamines, Cocaine, Heroin and their derivatives 
rarely committed crimes before the police became involved in arresting users. If you 
support the current policy – or if you oppose meaningful reform leading to legally 
available drugs with regulated producers and distributors you are, by definition, pro 
crime and against the interests of crime victims and taxpayers. It is a testament to the 
tawdry shamelessness of today’s media editors and pundits that this is not common 
knowledge.
	One of the fastest growing industries – even in our economic collapse – is the prison 
industry. Even today we have blatant pro crime advocates advancing measures to lock more 
victims of their policies in prison – at taxpayer expense. Is it not enough to burden 
crime victims with their policies? Why must they – after being victimized by theft and 
violent crime – have their pockets picked to pay for mass incarceration scams that do 
little to reduce the crime caused by these pro crime advocates? It is a testament to the 
tawdry shamelessness of today’s media that these people are known both as “anti crime” 
and “crime victim advocates”. And to think George Orwell really had no idea how 
ridiculous Newspeak would become!
	We don’t have problems with really dangerous drugs – when their effects are widely known 
and proven using verifiable criteria. The problem is that those who sell legal drugs that 
fit the criteria have used subterfuge and bought influence to keep that knowledge from 
the consuming public. And that influence includes our national media outlets.  It is a 
testament to the tawdry shamelessness of our national news media and pundits that – 
despite the vast array of scientific studies about the harms of long term use of 
cigarettes that has been available for many decades – it has only been in the last decade 
that cigarette addiction in this country has halved. We did this without the “help” of 
police to crack down on users and distributors. Needless to mention, we have many FDA 
approved medications with similar problems. I find it amazing that it takes millions of 
dollars worth of litigation to end legal distribution of problematic drugs distributed by 
big drug dealers – and only the whiff of “evidence” that some people are “partying” with 
other drugs to get them banned.
       I have two questions: does anyone really believe that our government has the 
consumer interest at heart with its policies on drugs? Secondly, why don’t those people 
surface whenever I try to sell a used car?