The Drug War fosters an increasing police/prison state mentality. The drug war exists to fund politicians, government agencies, bureaucrats, FBI, DEA, police and drug lords. It is corrupting of all law enforcement. It's not and never has been a moral war, but a moralistic one of scare tactics begun by Harry Anslinger back in Prohibition days to satisfy the anti-immigrant prejudices of southwestern states and to gain power. It is the most immoral war ever fought. It's casualties are the American people and citizens of many other countries.

The Drug Enforcement Agency has become a totalitarian, rogue agency. It can effectively pass laws, by rulemaking, in disregard of the exclusive mandate of Congress to pass laws. For instance, it recently banned all hemp products in foods - products that Congress considers legal - under the suspicion that there might be just a smidgen of THC present. Fortunately, lobbying by hemp advocates forced Congress to overturn the ruling. It has fought legalizing potentially lucrative hemp farming because marijuana might be hidden among these non-THC producing cannabis plants. Many if its actions are probably illegal. It's ruled over by a Drug Czar, who has always been a hard-line drug warrior preaching a paranoid and authoritarian line, and this in a democracy, which should be an affront to all Americans. Why we should allow such an agency to exist is a mystery. It should be, and probably is, unconstitutional.

Our drug warriors are afraid of drug rehabilitation programs, mostly because they would take away money from the drug war and its officials and lessen vindictive, socially controlling punishment. Their's is an authoritarian, repressive, moralistic war against humanity and freedom - a police state mentality. But drug abuse is a medical and psychological problem; casual drug use is entirely another animal. We have a drug war only because drugs are criminalized. People have drug abuse problems because of prior psychological problems that the drugs only offer escape from or aggravate. Healthy people can use many drugs, recreationally, without harm, except the harm that comes to them from the injustice system.

Illicit drugs are easily available if you want them, so the drug war is already lost. However, the powers that be don't want to win or lose the drug war because it is too lucrative for many private/special interests. Enormous profits are generated by this immoral war. The drug war is based on corruption.

Drug testing is an invasion of privacy and civil rights. No part of government or business has any right to know if you use drugs unless that use affects your work. Obviously, those whose jobs require responsibility for public safety, i.e., drivers, pilots, police, medical care practitioners, etc., may be required to be drug free and be tested. No one should be under drug influence at work, but in private, personal time what you do is no one's business but your own.

Humans have been drug users for as long as we have existed. There are many reasons that individual humans and whole societies use drugs. Every society permits and prohibits different drugs, many times with the same rationale for condemning drugs that another society finds acceptable. In Western society we allow alcohol, tobacco, and to a lesser extent, some powerful and potentially dangerous prescription drugs and marijuana. Use is controlled or taboo. We chose the criminal route to control violations of taboo. Other societies have used other methods of healing a social violation. We need to learn how to handle drugs and sex responsibly, which we can't do with legal prohibitions that prevent knowledge. The parental, authoritarian law enforcement and government officials aren't any better or more knowledgable than we and we shouldn't give them the right to prohibit our personal behaviors or deny us experiential knowledge. If some people have problems with drug use, the proper area for dealing with these problems is medical and psychological, not the prison. After all, no one's rights have been violated by personal drug use, there is no victim.

Many people take drugs recreationally and responsibly, so not all drug use is problematical. There are risks that these people are aware of. On the other hand, I don't know anyone who takes cyanide for pleasure.

Legalizing, regulating and taxing drugs for adult use is the sane solution. The cost of drugs would be much lower, their production and purity standardized, safe dosage levels established and controlled, the criminal elements and organized crime eliminated, otherwise law-abiding citizens would be freed of a criminal nightmare. Prohibition is the problem, not a solution.

In light of these facts I offer for your amusement:

If you are a prospective druglord, better your life by rising above the sordid street gangs. Stand out, take charge, be a leader. Rise above petty corruption to a more refined level. Support American businesses in Latin America. Promote law and order. Exercise your patriotic duty. Join today. The organization is an international NGO coordinated under the leadership of the Drug Fuehrer.

Membership benefits:

Militia protection, privacy, security, High profits, Tax relief, Move with the elites of the world, get to meet celebrities, influential politicians, important business leaders. Be viewed as a philanthropist.

Your membership will benefit:

Political campaigns, Police benevolent associations, Right-wing regimes, Entrapment/sting operations, Judges, Lawyers, Public servants, Your country's military and economy, Increase jobs in the defense, weapons and prison construction industries, producing billions in additional revenue, Beautify America by cleaning up the unsightly, undersocialized, nonconsuming poor from its streets and ghettoes by removing them to clean, well-lighted prisons.

Offer void where common sense and justice prevail.

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