Hi Ron,
It is true that there are a lot of vested interests in the war on drugs.
You add up all your points, and it almost seems like a variation on the "broken window" fallacy -- we need to keep the war on drugs going to have full emplyment -- or something to that effect. Think if, instead, all these people were doing productive work, how strong the economy would be!
Dear Richard;
Actually if I could I would ring the bell if it meant all War On Drug laws would be instantly repealed and put all those people out of work.
A Lew Rockwell columnist the other day had an interesting article on how badly the War on Drugs has interwoven itself into the framework of the Government and unfortunately our lives.
AND it started back in 1880!!! 125 years of successful War on Drugs and the " Mission IS STILL NOT Accomplished" after 125 years of the Government meddling in people lives and ruining peoples lives and totally blowing taxpayers dollars on the insanity known as the War on Drugs.....
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff52.html
Ron Getty
SF Libertarian
Richard Newell <richard@...> wrote:
Hi Ron,
It is true that there are a lot of vested interests in the war on drugs.
You add up all your points, and it almost seems like a variation on the "broken window" fallacy -- we need to keep the war on drugs going to have full emplyment -- or something to that effect. Think if, instead, all these people were doing productive work, how strong the economy would be!