Angel_Above said:

But seriously, they spend so much time and money and half the time all they get are little bags of marijuana.

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Or resin from a pipe or a roach.  Nothing really surprises me in the war on drugs, like a lot of things with the worlds governments it's repressive and common sense is thrown out the window. 
I don't think much is going to change.  I thought things would change with Brown in the UK, same shit.  I thought things would change with Obama until I learned about Biden's record, same shit.  Japan has gotten stricter and now so has the Netherlands, like a global war on drugs that's been proven to not work but hey, let's all keep pushing forward and maybe this time it will have better results.
The stupid argument of interupting supply is done by conformed people who have a lot invested in society as it is and don't think outside the legal box which is of course, good in their eyes.
When there is that much money in in it someone is always there to take it's place and supply always eventually meets demand so blame it on the drug users empowering the cartels and never on it's the prohibition and the resulting very luctrative black market at it's cause with the resulting violence, murders, imprisonments, turning on people, fear and paranoia that surrounds it.  Do you think Al Capone and how he did "buisness" could have been possible if alcohol wan't prohibited?  They learned and there is still many problems with alcohol but it's been much more benificial to the government and people to have it be legal.
More and more people outside of the religious and extreemly conservative communities know that pot isn't a dangerous illicit drug.  Why can't they present a balanced view about "drugs"?  With all the anti-drug commercials they show the negative sides that some people fall into with abuse but never the enjoyment of it or fun which is why it won't go away.  You never get people who say "I don't know, I really haven't tried such and such a substance or done research or read of peoples varying experiences on it and gained a balanced perspective".    It's most always that fear,  ignorance, and that stigma and the propaganda that surrounds it of it being "illegal" and harmful to yourself and the community.
It get frustrating but I get used to the absurd  things in society like the drug war after awhile and I will continue to do my thing against it, with the normal precautions and paranoia, just wanting to be left the fuck alone.

wolf fish said:

the only problem is those clocks are stright bull shit period. They use some arbitry number and then use it to calculate that into $/sec basiclly i could buy a big mac at 3$ lets say so then they go and say theres 300million americans so thats 900million $ a day spent on big macs and i highly doubt thats the case. Those clocks are bull shit propaganda in their own right.

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