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Marijuana Prohibition feeds the criminal justice system and the new prison-industrial complex, enriching drug testing equipment manufacturers, the "rehabilitation" industry, organized crime, pharmaceutical companies, and manufacturers of defoliants and other environmentally toxic chemicals. Marijuana Prohibition has given rise to helicopter-snooping domestic paramilitary eradication teams, DARE and other drug "education" programs, countless DEA bureaucrats, and legions of court-appointed "experts."
Marijuana Prohibition helps to subvert third-world sovereignty, promote the militarization of local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, encourage the erosion of Constitutionally-guaranteed civil liberties, foster pandemic corruption among politicians, police and Customs officials, particularly through the wholesale abuse of private property forfeiture law, and generally create a self-reinforcing system whereby the inevitable effects of prohibition are used to justify the continuation and expansion of? prohibition.
If marijuana was legalized, the drug war would be forced to focus upon 1-3 million hardcore addicts of other various illegal substances- people often living in poverty with little of value worth seizing. Such an obvious medical conundrum would inevitably deflate the $18 billion dollar annual drug war budget, with its attendant troop of enforcers, agents, guards, prosecutors and jails. The screeching sound you hear would be the Drug War gravy train coming to a halt.