Reply #35: Too much $ being made on the phony "war on drugs." [View All]

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What will all those cops do w/o busting harmless pot smokers and running them through the $ystem?

Can you imagine the deluge of TV propaganda ad campaigns that would go into motion concerning scores of small town cops and administrative types being laid off - and because of what? Decriminalization or legalization of weed? Fundies would immediately go into full tilt "teabaging" mode over the notion of no criminal consequences for those "dirty hippies!"

And as always, the loudest, right-wing minority, and the massive throngs of on-the-fence "moderates" who are closely aligned w/certain rightward "values," and can often be counted upon to rally and champion the right-wing position, will continue to dictate American "reality." ...irrespective of poll numbers that favor what would be a sensible, humane change in our country.

In spirit I'm with you, but given the current sociopolitical framework of the corporate/state nexus I'm disinclined to think that in the immediate sense this is anything more than one of the numerous, important baby steps involved/required in matters of change when their is such deep, institutional opposition to what The People want.