I posted this on another thread but i think it is relevant it is in regards to the war on drug and prohibition:

The drug war is about one thing, $, it always has been and it always will be, they don't give a fuck about public health or safety. Prohibition has made drug use 100,000 times more dangerous than it was pre prohibition there is no debating this fact. Additionally it does nothing to curtail use The same % of the population uses drugs than before prohibition, thus they obviously don't are about health because they are responsible for creating the dangers of drug use. Not to mention the criminal enterprises that have been generated by prohibition. It is sick that a government would do this to its own people. Propaganda is very powerful, people actually think that these people are trying to help us. When they are actually destroying public health and safety and putting us all at risk. It is a vicious cycle. The war on drugs is an industry, one of the biggest in the country. These are powerful people, who just want a job and a bigger budget. History will look back at the prohibitionists as we look back now at people like McCarthy and Stalin. Sick sick people who exploit the people through lies and fear.