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The War Against Drug Growers and Users is an Attack on the Poor.

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The war against drug users and suppliers is big business even if it is a failed policy.

Pharmaceutical, tobacco and alcohol firms have been big supporters of anti-drug propaganda.

They are in the business of legalized drugs and it is in their interest to keep other drugs illegal.

Marijuana is particularly worrisome to these firms as its cultivation is fairly simple and they would never be able to monopolize it.

These firms are certainly less than thrilled that 13 US states have legalized medical marijuana use and for that reason federal authorities have continued to persecute pot in states like California.

This violates state sovereignty and the popular will of Californians who legalized medical use through a statewide referendum.

The attack on suppliers is good business for US arms dealers that were worried with the end of the cold war.

It was Bill Clinton who invented Plan Colombia in order to keep weapons contracts big in South America and an excuse to maintain Colombia’s war against the FARC guerrilla movement there.

Unfortunately Bolivia and Ecuador are no longer interested in their part of keeping US arms merchants in business or in attacking indigenous peasant movements.

Actually it was precisely the Plan Colombia assault on indigenous growers that helped bring Evo Morales and Rafael Correas come to power in those countries.

Their governments and much of South America are opposing US historic designs for the region.

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Drug Import Historically Big Business for CIA

The war against drug growth in Colombia is really a war on the poor and the revolutionary insurgency that continues in that country.

It is waged in order to seek a stable environment for capitalist exploitation of that country’s vast oil and natual resources.

In reality the wealthy in the US have always been involved in drug trafficking.

This was exposed by the Iran Contra scandal of the 1980s. It was not new then. In South east Asia, the generals that were the closest to the CIA in the 60s and 70s were the biggest heroin merchants.

In the 80s it was the CIA running crack cocaine into Los Angeles to fund the Nicaraguan Contra mercenaries.

Drugs on the streets helps maintain violence among the poor. This is good for people that make profits at the expense of working people.

Drugs dumb people down and give them an escape from reality. It keeps them distracted and disengaged.

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Drug Violence Coming Home to Roost

The war against drug cartels in Colombia did have an effect on the center of gravity for the rg trade. It moved it to the Mexico.

New Mexican druglords are increasingly under attack by the Mexican Government. Violence is being met with growing violence.

This is already spilling over the border into US cities. If the new White House does not stop the repression against illegal drugs the violent self defense by the Mexican drug lords will only increase across the US.

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The Racist War in on the Poor

The war against drug users has helped keep the US at the number one nation in jailing its own citizens.

Drug laws targeting the poor and particularly African Americans is breaking up black families.

Whites far outnumber blacks for drug use yet it is black Americans disproportionately filling US jails on drug related non-violent felony charges.

The US public need to demand an end to the drug war which is only a war on poor Americans and the construction of a drug policy that makes sense.

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