http://freedomofmedicineanddiet.blogspot.com/2011/03/drug-war-tobacco-pharma-agricultural.html

Is it any coincidence how cigarette sales spiked with each of the successive drug prohibition statutes – 1906, 1914 and 1937?

“…location of their traffic stops. There were ten times as many on the money side.”
“We want both sides of the road worked”
“It looks like they’re not concerned with stopping the drugs, they just want the money.”

I couldn’t finish watching it. My frustration at not being able to stop them was making me very angry.

This doesn’t make sense in view of the article. If you bust them before they sell the dope, you take the dope AND the dealer doesn’t get cash for selling the dope–you are depriving them of sales AND cash.

That may be true but in that case the cure is worse than the disease. I’d rather have the drug dealers than that kind of police running around. Like Bugsy Siegel said “Hey we only kill each other.” Drug dealers don’t bother me because I have no dealings with them but everytime I leace the house I have to fear an encounter with the police that could take a wrong turn at any time.

Let me reiterate that it is my belief that the methods being employed are despicable and morally bankrupt. But anyone that’s been inside of this world knows there’s no shortage of product in the US. I think the last time I had a problem finding cannabis because of law enforcement interdiction was in 1989. It wasn’t that long ago that a freakin’ railroad car with 11 tons (22,000 lbs) was confiscated by LE. Anyone with any working knowledge of the mechanics if contraband smuggling knows that the top level smugglers know better than to put all of their eggs in one basket. It’s not unreasonable to infer that at minimum 2 railroad box cars with an equal amount made it to their destination, and that not a single person that wanted to buy some of the pot from the carload that was busted was even aware of it happening unless they happened to read the news story.

The DEA opened for business in 1970. I often wonder how many tons of cannabis were seized in 1969. It wouldn’t shock me if that one 11 ton seizure exceeded the total amount confiscated in the year of the Summer of Love.

I’ve never understood why the people in favor of the failed war on (some) drugs have no concern with the fact that it’s an epic failure of public policy in the past, and a guaranteed failure in the future. How many more decades of failure must our society endure before these clowns admit that it’s a failure as plain as the big, red, honking noses on their faces?