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I'm against drugs, but the war on drugs has been going on for decades, and its clear people can get drugs just as easily as 4 decades ago.
Its just another ridiculous way to waste taxpayer money trying to make it look like something is being done about it. And they do a nice job, but you simply can't win a war where 40 Million people just in the USA alone use drugs and will pay huge amounts of money for it.
Right now 900,000 citizens are in Federal prison on drug charges. It cost us about $450,000 to prosecute a drug dealer and $50K per year to incarcerate them. That's about $45 Billion per year we're spending on mostly non-violent cases.
Worldwide its estimated 200 to 300 Million people use drugs on a regular basis. If you figure lowball at $50 per week, that adds up to $10 to $15 Billion per week or $500 to $750 Billion per year. Some estimates take the narcotics biz over $1 Trillion annually during peak years.
Anyone who thinks they can stop a Trillion dollar industry is smoking crack themselves. Will never happen.
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