Frankly, I think it’ll be liberals who legalize drugs before conservatives. Libertarians are no longe ra legitimate member of the republican party, as the GOP has no qualms about controlling the lives of others as evident by their religious and traditionalism policies. At least the liberals have no reason to keep bans on marijuana, save to cater to the neo-conservative vote.

Frankly, i odn’t know what libertarians are suppose to do in the mean time. Form a splitner party, maybe. Nader’s probably right — the two party system is broken.

The vast majority of arrests and prosecutions are for drug “crimes” – cannabis arrests alone make up more arrests than ALL violent crime, combined! They can point to the “Drug War” to say that they are overwhelmed with “criminals”, and need ever larger budgets and more military equipment. None of this is ever, ever, ever used for ACTUAL crime-fighting, only for digging up more drug users. The police don’t have the “manpower” to investigate rapes, murders, kidnappings, burglaries, assaults, fraud, embezzlement, or anything else because they are “too busy” with drug crimes, so more cops, more money, more equipment are needed so they can “tackle the problem”, but none of this EVER goes to the crimes that REALLY affect society, the violent crimes against persons or property.

Furthermore, the police-prison complex prefers nonviolent, easily controlled drug offenders to difficult, violent, recalcitrant ACTUAL criminals. Who would you rather capture and look after – nonviolent, placid drug users, or truly animalistic violent criminals? Which job is easier?

We use the war on drugs to make neighbors terrified of each other, an unknown evil that could be anyone, anywhere. The War on Drugs divides us against ourselves, pits father against son, brother against brother. It makes us suspicious of everyone, makes us insular, and allows for ever more encroachments against our persons to “keep us safe”. If the WoD were ended, all the existing excuses for government malfeasance would have to be given up. The public is coming to understand this, and so conveniently, “terrorists” have been slotted into the same spot that “drug dealers” used to occupy. If and when the “War on Drugs” is finally quietly scuttled, there will already be a replacement to continue with these false justifications, and more.

This is all just a convenient scam to imprison and enslave the entire public. If we do not own our bodies, we are not a free people. We, then, are NOT a free people. We are slaves in our own nation. Or, what WAS at one time, our nation.