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August 11th, 2009

unixronin: Rodin's Thinker (Thinker)
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 10:20 am

“Prohibiting a market does not mean destroying it,” ­[Lev] Timofeev said.  What it means is placing a “dynamically developing market under the total control of criminal corporations”.

The Financial Times has an article by Matt Engel discussing why it's time to admit that the War on Drugs has been a dismal failure.  The longer the world's nations continue to enforce the drug cartels' monopolies, the better business is for the drug cartels.  And that IS what the War on Drugs does:  It enforces the drug cartels' monopolies with all the might the Northern Hemisphere's governments can bring to bear.  This is folly.  The ONLY way to break the drug cartels is to undercut their market by making drugs freely available at or near production cost, and it'll eliminate the "forbidden fruit" factor into the bargain, along with the massive economic and civil-liberties cost of drug prohibition.

If the War on Drugs has any value at all to society, it is only as clear and obvious evidence that our governments are unable or unwilling to learn from experience.

unixronin: Rodin's Thinker (Thinker)
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 10:20 am

“Prohibiting a market does not mean destroying it,” ­[Lev] Timofeev said.  What it means is placing a “dynamically developing market under the total control of criminal corporations”.

The Financial Times has an article by Matt Engel discussing why it's time to admit that the War on Drugs has been a dismal failure.  The longer the world's nations continue to enforce the drug cartels' monopolies, the better business is for the drug cartels.  And that IS what the War on Drugs does:  It enforces the drug cartels' monopolies with all the might the Northern Hemisphere's governments can bring to bear.  This is folly.  The ONLY way to break the drug cartels is to undercut their market by making drugs freely available at or near production cost, and it'll eliminate the "forbidden fruit" factor into the bargain, along with the massive economic and civil-liberties cost of drug prohibition.

If the War on Drugs has any value at all to society, it is only as clear and obvious evidence that our governments are unable or unwilling to learn from experience.