Some people are still functioning under the illusion that drug use can be stopped by government violence and threat of violence.   Outlawing certain drugs  raises their price,   pushes the activity "underground,"   makes criminals wealthy,    finances terrorism,   corrupts government officials,   and  does absolutely nothing to stop drug use.   It actually encourages more drug use because the only way many people can pay for their habit is to get their friends hooked on drugs.  

The huge profits encourage people to become criminals.    Seventy percent of all crime is drug related.   Keeping drugs illegal  also supports a huge, multi-billion-dollar,  police/prison industry.   Keeping drugs illegal creates morality-enforcers and pushes the country in the direction  of a police-state.   Illegal drugs are at the core of the crime everywhere on the planet.   A a significant percent of the world's economy is based upon the sale of illegal drugs.  

Overwhelming evidence shows that the prohibition of alcohol during the 1920's was  a complete failure and that it spawned the birth of what is now a global-level, semi-secret, organized-crime network.   In the face of overwhelming evidence that the prohibition of alcohol was a social disaster and in the face of equally compelling evidence that the present prohibition of certain drugs is a disaster of far greater proportions, politicians are still waging war against the of use of certain declared-to be-illegal drugs.   Let's answer the question, "WHY ?" and  then look at what drug prohibition is costing us.  

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Why Politicians Can't Oppose Keeping Certain Drugs Illegal .   If you had millions of dollars at your disposal, and if you were also morally bankrupt, could you figure out ways to secretly financially support ²  or otherwise assist those politicians who vote to keep drugs illegal?   Of course you could!   And you could also do so without them even knowing that they had a secret benefactor.   And the opposite is also true.   With equal secrecy, you could be a destroyer of those who support the decriminalization of the now-illegal drugs.  

Secret money is the death of democracy.   Each year, billions of secret dollars go into the pockets of the criminals that run the world.   But don't expect this to change any time soon.   WHY?   Because those who run the illegal drug cartels are sleepwalkers.   They have no idea of who or what they really are ² and they haven't a clue regarding the long-term consequences of what they are doing.   In the face of such overwhelming ignorance, the best we have to offer comes from the Christian Bible:  "Forgive them, Father, they know not what they do."

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