Mine are totally unsubstantiated and perhaps paranoid suspicions. But why do they linger so? Because in war, and the drug war is as real as any armed conflict between armies, there is no sanctuary. High office is particularly vulnerable in these situations .I just read the city of Los Angeles is suddenly shutting down medical marijuana dispensaries, hundreds of them, to make the city "safer" and I couldn't help but think, which one of these bums has the largest throat calluses and bruised knees from accommodating drug cartels? And then I wondered if indeed, they were threatened by said cartels to cut down on the dispensaries just as Mexican lawmakers are threatened for attempting to reduce the black market value of marijuana.

Sorry, Not Heroes Real Heroes Anyone could fuck with the last inexpensive relief available to chemotherapy patients, but why would they? and expect a cookie? Only the dog is innocent. Worse, why does the media ignore the growing consensus of powerful judges and law enforcement officials who want marijuana legalized? Judge Jim Gray on Failed Drug Laws mp3 "If we can't stop the sale of drugs inside our own prisons, how can we expect to stop it in our streets?" Jim Gray, Superior Court Judge. The groups who are winning in the "drug war": drug lords , politicians, terrorists funded by the black market profits of drug prohibition. Who's losing? everybody else. Beheadings and Our Role in Them Mexico now approaches civil war over our failed war on drugs. Our support of marijuana prohibition made this possible. It's a case you can take to court and win.

Suddenly, I wasn't as angry at the District Attorney. Suddenly I realized he may not be in the position he's in because he's happy to spit in the face of Los Angeles and California voters. No, I thought, someone offered him the choice between a bribe or a bullet. I'd bet my life on it. It's what they do in South America, and it's what's been done here before, particularly during alcohol prohibition. Either case, if my suspicions are correct, it's time for Steve Coolly to step down for bowing down to the drug lords and completely selling out his country. If not, if my suspicions are untrue, I owe the man an apology and really should return to my meds.

Just kidding. The dudes a douche bag. He actually claims 100% of all medical marijuana dispensaries are illegal. Seriously.

But there is no consensus of geniuses urging him to continue a failed war on drugs. However, there is one group; black market drug lords who favor it tremendously, unanimously, and they can contribute to any politician as easily as you can, even if they don't live in this country. There is another critical and growing consensus, though: 53% of Americans favor legalization, and 68% believe the war on drugs is a complete failure...

Now, please tell me I'm wrong, because I want to be. The way I see it, if you oppose the legalization of marijuana and support its prohibition, you support the deadly drug cartels that could not exist without prohibition. You see, when all is said and done, Mexico is in an advanced state of a failed prohibition model that has brought the country to the edge of civil war. Why, in the midst of so much violence, are we no better than dogs that return to their vomit?

Where the police are in bed with the dealers, compromised leaders and law enforcement officials are conspicuously the most vehement supporters of continued prohibition and always will be, inasmuch as they profit from their cut of black market profits and protection rackets. If pot were legal, the dealers would lose a cash cow, we all know that. If they lost that money, amounting to untold billions per year, they couldn't bribe officials to look the other way, or arrest rival drug cartels. We all know that. or at least should know that, it's not exactly a secret.

How can we believe the supporters of continued prohibition are thoughtful and socially conscious Americans when the only fact we know is that supporting prohibition is literally aiding and abetting the enemy? This isn't a metaphor. It's the literal truth. By appealing to prohibition, we closed the door on any other alternative that would not risk compromising the integrity of local and federal law enforcement. By appealing to prohibition, we gave the drug cartels the incentive and means to marry organized crime and high office. And by appealing to prohibition while fighting a "war on drugs" we went to war without the only weapon that could cripple the drug cartels immediately: cut off the snake's head by abolishing prohibition itself.

Why did we follow a prohibition model that was so corrupt and deadly the nation actually added an amendment to the American Constitution to ensure it would never re-appear again?

 

Law Enforcement and Genius Against Prohibition

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From the source site: Many police officers are asking the question: if prohibition didn't work for alcohol, why are we in denial about it working for other things? LEAP is a major initiative now, and gaining steam. Check out www.leap.cc for more. Filmed and narrated by Mike Gray Produced by Common Sense for Drug Policy

"The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this."

Albert Einstein My First Impression of the U.S.A. (1921)