(06-26-2021, 04:41 PM)Finspiracy Wrote: @"OmegaLogos"
Yeah, the war on drugs, or terrorism, were never meant to be "won". In case of drugs, they are already here. And there. And everywhere. No amount of "warfare" or punishment or stigmatization of drug users will make them somehow disappear from the society.
Peace
That right there is God's Own Truth. The "war on drugs" was never what it was advertised as. They never meant to eradicate drug use, they just wanted to control the market, take that control away from "cartel" businesses, and retain control of it to themselves in government, to collect taxes and exert control.
It was a power trip, nothing more.
Had they meant to "win" that war, they would have fought like they meant it. They didn't. It would have been "won" long ago if that had ever been the intent.
Now drugs are being "legalized" willy-nilly, and incorporated into government tax structures and control structures.
Just like alcohol was.
And that was always the plan.
The "war" served only to push prices up, far beyond production costs, and now governments are taking advantage of that, raking in the money, and prices of legalized drugs are not dropping.
Because... government. And profits.
Moonshine is a case in point. I used to buy moonshine for 20 dollars a gallon. Then the government got in on the moonshine distribution racket, and now I find it going for as high as 800 dollars a gallon in some places. Marijuana - I used to buy it for 20 dollars an ounce (Mexican) up to 40 dollars an ounce (Panamanian and Columbian), but now it goes for 700 or 800 dollars an ounce, so the government is legalizing it here just to rake in the profits for themselves, and then tax the hell out of it on top of that with taxes of up to 30%.
Even the drug cartels see that handwriting on the wall, and are diversifying their portfolios into human trafficking and smuggling so that they have a business model to fall back on when the government takes complete control of the drug market.
In the words of Vito Corleone - It's just business. Nothing personal.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’