War on Drugs

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The war on drugs, like any other war is not good for the majority of the people. It is not good for the country. War is expensive and nothing is ever gained by the majority of the people. The only people who ever really benefit by war are those involved in the war industry. They are the people who sell war good, the guns and other weapons, or the drugs. If naturally occuring substances were legal they wouldn't have much value . Marijuana for instance has very little intrinsic value. There is really no labor or manufactoring process involved to give it value. If a seed hits the ground and gets enough moisture to germinate, it will grow. The only thing that gives it value is the fact that it is illegal. When making something illegal gives it value, criminals will get involved. It happened during prohibigtion and it has happened again in the drug business. There is so much effort into stopping marijuana cultivation in this country that billions of dollars leave this country every year to pay for naturally occuring substances. That money ends up in the hands of criminals who do not have the best interest of this country in mind. We always seem to finance the people who end up work against us. That is not a smart thing to do. People are going to do what they are going to do whether or not it is legal. It would be better if we just made naturally occuring substances legal so that the criminals would have no reason to get involved. Know what I mean Vern?

This country has never benefited from any war in which we have been involved. The war industry has benefited at the expense of the country in all of them. The money our government has spent on our little desert war over the past nine years has pretty well bankrupted the government. Their debt is our greatest national security risk. Owing thirteen and a quarter trillion dollars to foreign interest is not good for our country.

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