[ErosionOfSanity]

Originally Posted by Smokey_mctoke

It's not all about the cash, it's also about power and control over otherwise innocent citizens. The Government has a hard time keeping a leash on free men, but turn them into criminals and all their rights go away. Then they own you and your's.

The War on Drugs allows the Government to pry into the lives of people, who apart from their consensual crime of responsible drug use, do nothing wrong. The illegality of certain substances gives the Government excuses to militarize the police and ignore certain rights people take for granted in other aspects of life. All this translates into a system of abuse that entails confiscation of private property w/o compensation, over use SWAT teams to bully people into submission and needless use of destructive no-knock warrants in the middle of the night.

Legalization will severely weaken Government control on it's Citizens, as they would then have to wait for us law abiding Citizens to actually go and do something truly criminal to put their boots on our necks. That's why the .gov is so adamant about their drug policies. The War on Drugs was never meant to protect us, all it does is make foreign "businessmen" rich, and Americans criminals. It's the Government's war against its own people; a civil war of sorts.

100% agreed.