Is the government's
45-billion-dollar-per-year
war
on drugs a success?
If you are a concerned mother intending to keep your kids safe,
the answer is: The
anti-marijuana / anti drug war is now and always has been a
dismal failure.
If your intention is to reduce crime and violence,
the answer is: The
anti-marijuana / anti drug war is now and always has been a
dismal failure.
The list of failures is a mile long:
http://www.MarijuanaSanity.com#gr.
On the other hand, if your financial well-being is tied to
marijuana prohibition, then prohibition is a success.
There are hundreds of major corporations whose quarterly
financial report shows higher earning because of marijuana
prohibition. There are also hundreds of thousands of
people whose personal, financial livelihood depends upon keeping
marijuana illegal. Here are some examples:
The Oil Corporations:
As you know, most plastic products in use today are made from
oil. Oil is plant matter that, over eons, has been
naturally converted into crude oil.
Any plastic product in use today can also be produced directly from the
hemp plant. All plastics, without exception, can be
produced from plants such as hemp. The raw materials
to make plastic can be grown by American farmers.
We DO NOT need the multi-billion-dollar
oil industry to produce strong, high-quality, plastic products.
The hemp plant can be converted to a
plastic that is much stronger
than the plastics used today. Because no
multi-million dollar investments in oil exploration are
required, small companies could easily enter the plastic
production business and offer stiff competition to the
plastic-production-portion of the oil
industry. Also, this could and would dramatically
reduce environmental destruction.
The excuse for keeping hemp
illegal is that the hemp plant looks like the marijuana plant.
Maintaining marijuana prohibition is
a big win for the multi-billion-dollar oil companies.
The Pharmaceutical Corporations:
Medical marijuana research is still in it's infant stages.
We simply don't know how many illnesses can be cured by way of
products produced from the marijuana plant. As a
pain reliever, marijuana is already a serious competitor to the
sellers of pain-killer drugs.
Here's something about the legal-drug
industry that you probable don't already know.
Because their first and foremost goal is making money, the
pharmaceutical corporations are
focused on creating drugs that treat the symptoms and not on
drugs that cure diseases. If they cure an illness,
they lose thousands of customers. They are not interested in
losing customers.
Maintaining marijuana prohibition is
a big win for the multi-billion-dollar
Pharmaceutical
companies.
The Lumber / Logging /
Tree-Harvesting Industry:
The portion of this industry that produces wood pulp for paper
will be all but eliminated by the establishment of a
multi-billion-dollar hemp industry. Why
Because hemp fibers are
superior to wood pulp for making paper. Both yield
per year of growth and
yield per acre of land are higher.
Shifting paper production from a wood-based fiber to hemp-based
fiber has huge ecological advantages.
No U.S., forest ecosystems are threatened by the production of
hemp. No special and/or heavy-duty equipment is
required.
Maintaining marijuana prohibition is
a big win for the major lumber
companies.
The Cotton-Growing Industry:
In almost every way, hemp fibers are superior to cotton fibers
for making cloth and related items. Growing hemp is
also far less toxic to the environment than cotton.
Maintaining marijuana prohibition is
a big win for the cotton-growing industries.
The Auto Industry:
The auto industry doesn't want marijuana legalized because that
would open the door to the hemp industry which, in turn, would
bring attention to the undisputable fact the auto industry
has been
ripping off customers
for decades. The auto industry sold hundreds of millions of cars
in which the auto bodies, the fenders and the rocker panels were
made of steel, which rusted out and had to be replaced.
In 1941, Henry Ford demonstrated that auto bodies
could be made from
hemp plastic.
Imagine an auto body that does not rust away, is lighter than
steel yet could withstand ten times the impact without denting.
Legalizing marijuana is the next step in
making future cars almost dent proof, thus saving car owners
millions of dollars and putting most collision repair shops out
of business. Maintaining
marijuana prohibition is a big win for the Auto Industry.
The Beer and Hard Liquor Industry:
Why buy beer or hard liquor when you get a much more pleasant
high from a weed you grew in your back yard, and do so without
damaging you liver or experiencing a hangover?
Maintaining marijuana prohibition is
a big win for the beer and hard-liquor industries.
The Police and Prison Industry:
The police and prison industries require criminals.
Seventy percent of all crimes are drug or marijuana related.
Without marijuana and drug-related crimes, the need for
police and prisons will be dramatically reduced.
Since former President Richard (I'm not a crook) Nixon
instituted the War on Drugs in 1972, the prison population in
the united States has risen from 300,000 to 2,600,000.
That's an 800% increase. The United States has, by far, the
highest incarceration rate of any industrialized nation in the
entire world.
Maintaining marijuana prohibition is
a big win for the police and prison industries.
The Government's War on Drugs:
In the present war on drugs in the United states, the state and federal governments,
collectively, spend over 45 billion
dollars of your tax money each year fighting the so-called "bad"
drugs
($45,000,000,000,000) and that doesn't include the police industry,
the prison industry or the military hardware industries that
sell all the sophisticated equipment used to hunt for pot
smokers, marijuana growers and drug peddlers.
Maintaining marijuana prohibition is
a big win for the hundreds of thousands of people who work for
the government's anti-drug agencies.
Gangsters, Hoodlums, Major
Criminals and Petty Street Thugs:
There are vast networks of organized criminals producing,
distributing and selling both marijuana and illegal drugs all
over the world. Collectively, these organizations
have hundreds of thousands of people working for them.
Maintaining marijuana prohibition is
a big win for the hundreds of thousands
gangsters, hoodlums, major criminals,
and petty street thugs.
Laundering 250 Billion Dollars
Each Year:
Let's ask the most ignored question in this entire marijuana /
drug controversy: Who are
the big-time, multi-billion-dollar money handlers? Who is
laundering 250-billion dollars in illegal drug and illegal
marijuana money each and every year?
There are only two possible answers, governments or
major corporations. Whomever it is, their financial income
will take a big hit when the marijuana prohibition
insanity ends.
Maintaining marijuana prohibition is
a big win for those laundering drug money.
Additional Prohibition
Beneficiaries:
There are undoubtedly, many other reasons why marijuana is
still illegal that this author has not thought of.
They too, will almost certainly be about money.
In each of the above examples, the motivation to maintain
marijuana prohibition is about money and profits.
The motivations for marijuana prohibition are not connected to stopping the use of
marijuana of drugs.
The Bottom Line:
The evidence tells us that marijuana prohibition is about money
and profits for hundreds of multi-million-dollar corporation and
for hundreds of thousands of individuals.
Here's the real bottom line: 1) Marijuana
Prohibition is the key to keeping the multi-billion-dollar
anti-drug war in place. 2) Marijuana prohibition is
such total, complete and absolute insanity that prohibition is
about to end. The only question is how soon will it
end?
3) When the anti-drug war ends, the financial system
as we presently know it will collapse and have to be rebuilt.
To see an example of a new, fully-functional, easy-to-implement
business structure, please go to:
http://www.TrueCorporateDemocracy.com#gr
Marijuana prohibition
is not about
preventing marijuana use.
It's about money.
