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Originally Posted by alanmcorcoran
At some point, there was a change in plan and they started throwing the book at weed dealers in a lot of jurisdictions.
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Pressure from the Fed's.
A lot of those in Washington (and one party in particular) seems to think that they "need" a war on something.......to keep us "peons" occupied so we don't think as much about things that really matter..........like regulating financial institutions so they don't F... up the whole world worse than a war would do.
Sometime back about the early '80s (Regan was Pres. ??) we just ran out of wars.......so we created "The War on Drugs". Now that we have several "real" wars to keep us occupied, we somehow forgot that we could stop fighting the made-up one.
There IS hope, however. Alas, some will whine and moan and claim that it will be a big mistake to stop putting pot smokers in jail.
We need the space for the "white collar" criminals.
