Ending the Global Drug War: Voices from the Front Lines reasontv / 12,13,2011 "Ever since the War on Drugs, everything has hit the fan," says Romesh Bhattacharji, former Narcotics Commissioner of India. Rather than continue the unnecessary and costly drug war, Bhattacharji advises the United States to simply "Relax, take it easy, [and] tolerate." [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1dG-80D-2E&feature=player_embedded"]Video[/ame] Last month, at the Cato Institute's "Ending the Global War on Drugs" conference, Bhattacharji's sentiments were echoed by ex-drug czars, cops, politicians, intellectuals, liberal and conservative journalists, and even the former President of Brazil. Reason.tv attended the event and spoke with a number of the featured speakers, including: Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Wall Street Journal Tucker Carlson, The Daily Caller Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou, Speaker of the House of Deputies, Uruguay Leigh Maddox, Law Enforcement Against Prohiion; University of Maryland School of Law Enrique Gomez Hurtado, former Senator, Colombia Larry Campbell, Senator, Canada Romesh Bhattacharji, former Narcotics Commissioner, India Eric Sterling, Criminal Justice Policy Foundation Harry G. Levine, Queens College (N.Y.) Juan Carlos Hidalgo, Cato Institute
It all sounds fine and dandy... ...until you see who the CATO Institute really is. OK....so Koch Companies, huh? What are they all about? The NUMERO UNO company looking to control cannabis as they know they cannot COMPETE with cannabis. Notice also the reference to the Global Commission and their findings in this video which included the curious likes of Paul Volker, former Fed Chairman, among others. Read EVERYTHING regarding cannabis and its legalization with a very skeptical eye. They all know the drug war is not "winnable" and a miserable failure. But, it will persist until the Kochs of the world know they can control it in a legal landscape to their own benefit. There is simply too much profit to allow it to go to the people.
God, it just keeps getting worse the more you look. Had never heard of "Invista" before. What's this company now?
It's not a wonder anyomre that the state government can't even uphold their own laws and shut out the federal government. Wow! How many governments do we actually have? That ideology in the short clip has been around for decades it's sad that people are just waking up but again not sad that we have activist that believe in what everyone in the weed world are trying to accomplish. Can you imagine the money flow and jobs it would produce.