'The war on drugs is dead, long live the war on drugs'.

The reason the yanks invaded Afghanistan was because the Teliban got rid of the opium poppy there. Heroin almost disappeared in the States [and here and everywhere else].
Now the trade is getting back to normal in the world largest supplier of opium to make Heroin. The US economy was heading into recession because of the Teliban. Sure, all governments spend heaps on this 'war' on drugs, but only a fraction of the profit they make by 'failing' in that war. It keeps the punters happy thinking they are trying to wipe out the drug trade.

What do people think happens to all the $ from the 2nd, biggest earner next to arms? The $'s get washed and go through the economy [it even gets taxed from sales tax, property tax including GST etc.], thats what.
If the world trade in dugs [or arms] stopped tomorrow we would nose-dive into a depression. The Teliban had to go. Long live the war on drugs as the proceeds from them also help keep that other big industy arms sales, boyant too as a lot of drug $'s go on financing the arms trade.

Legalize Heroin etc. tomorrow and the world economy would collapse. It's big business, even the jails in the US are a growth market and can be invested in just like any other commodity. Legalize Drugs and 80% of crime would disappear. Why do the insurance companies make so much money? The cost of insuring against crime. Drugs feed a Trillion $ diverse industry that is totally Dependant on drug illegality. Capitalists ain't stupid. The Law does pretty well from the drug trade too. It's called corruption because cops aren't that well paid anywhere in the world.

It ain't the drug dealers who are evil, it's the capitalist who will accept their washed [even unwashed] $ and are the real culprits. Governments make drugs illegal so the dealers make lots of money to spend and keep the economy buoyant and big/small business happy. Everybody is happy except the broken and destroyed people the drugs leave behind. Hang the Government[s] who represent the money makers, not the dealers. Their just one of the Gov. best friends [buoyant economy], but don't admit it or mostly don't even know it. Indirectly, a % of almost everyones income is drug money and arms money [misery money], we just don't know it and don't want to either.

Far fetched ? Think about it. We have a drug [and arms] problem because of somthing we do very little off. 'Think'.