Reply #26: I agree, but...

[EstimatedProphet]

1) the "war on drugs" drives a substantial part of the economy;

2) the majority of people who are affected by illegal drugs don't matter to the industrial economy, or the people who make the drug legislation;

3) the police get paid to die-at least in the minds of those who make the anti-drug legislation;

4) there's more points that are clearly obvious.

The people that support the "war on drugs" are making huge amounts of money off of it. They will never care about the effects. The government officials who would be able to stop the war on drugs are making a fortune in kickbacks from organized crime too-the Rico Act which was supposed to destroy organized crime doesn't even touch them, because they just pay off the officials to look the other way or go after the little guys.

For the war on drugs to end, it has to quit being a sacred cow. Right now it's a hard sell to legalize things that are admittedly often destructive. Anyone who campaigns for legalizing drugs is automatically a Bad Man, because drugs are bad-everyone knows that. We need to fundamentally change the way people think about drug use before it will happen, because the average American has been brainwashed to believe that recreational drug use is morally akin to murder.