This may have been discussed already but, really…
really, why do governments spend so much time and money “fighting the war on drugs”, and why do people vote for politicans who promise to?
I think we all know that the reasons they give, that drugs are harmful and cause crime are not their real reasons, because they go out of their way to manufacture phony evidence that drugs that are basically harmless are harmful and tobacco is legal everywhere (and we all know from experience that none of them are as bad as the government claims) and as was shown with the repeal of prohibition in the US, driving something underground funds criminal organisations, legalizing it destroys them.
If it was simply a matter of anticipating lost work hours from using drugs, then why allow alcohol which takes people out of work a lot more than many drugs (it certainly messes people up a lot more the following day than weed).
The explanation that alcohol and tobacco companies are simply too powerful and thats why they’re the exception also doesn’t make sense if you consider that other drugs had even more powerful cartels historically. I mean, the British actually faught a war to defend their opium market!
The same is true of the argument that alcohol and tobacco are tolerated because they are so well integrated into the culture; opium and cocaine were similarly part of the culture in the 19th century and used by all social classes.
So, any theories as to motives?
