Only cops and crooks have benefited from $2.5 trillion spent fighting trafficking.
The United States has been spending $69 billion a year worldwide for the last 40 years, for a total of $2.5 trillion, on drug prohibition -- with little to show for it. Is anyone actually benefiting from this war? Six groups come to mind.
TVNL Comment: The drug trade is controlled in many respects by the CIA. The money is used to fund illegal black ops. The pharmaceutical industry also wants drugs like pot to stay illegal because it it were legal we would see about 40% of prescription drugs replaced...by a joint! Pot is safer and more effective and many, or I should say most competing expensive drugs. More on the drug trade and the CIA in this video...
Scott Adams, the author and cartoonist whose "Dilbert" comic strip satirized corporate life to wide acclaim...
