Why are "drugs" illegal?

I would say all one has to do to see why governments eventually outlaw drugs is look what drugs have the ability to do to people whom otherwise would be docile little sheep.

Drugs induce a state of realization of ones current situation. Governments need their people to be on board with the govt's agenda, anything, even a little plant, that threatens to turn the people against the govt, must be done away with.

 

hahaha
thats the funniest thing i have ever read. You cant really believe this right?
And then you talk of the prison economy... are you now trying to say the governent makes money off putting people in jail?
please give the great delight of showing me the insane website where you got these ideas

 

Well, anyone who thinks that making drugs legal will help the poor people other than maybe in the feeling good department are very wrong. The drug/powerfull companies will just mass produce the drugs and will make many many many times more than some warlord in some foriegn country can or some guy in his basement can, those people will be put out of bussiness within weeks.

 

It's called the prison-industrial complex. Look it up, then talk your ignorant trash.

 

because if a commidity is illegal the price for it goes up. it's simple economics, not only that. but, the federal government makes a lot of money from building prisons.

 

Im looking at this and saying to myself, no, no this person cannot actually believe this can he/she?

I mean your so wrong I almost feel like well hell if this person actually thinks this then its probably hopeless to begin with...

 

the government already makes money off of drugs being illegal. only poor people deal drugs? pablo excobar was anything but poor. i used to know a drug dealer who came from a well to do background to begin with. the government will make money off of dope wether it's legal or not anyways. but it's really simple economics. the FDa as we speak is trying to outlaw the sale of vitamins and supplements. it's proof positive that they really don't want us to take charge of our own health. it's why in western medicine they emphasise upon "treatment" rather than "prevention". this is why in all the major medical journals you'll see mountains of prescription drug ads and few if any articles on how there is a direct correlation with health and lifestyle.

 

but they do, it's why so many american tax dollars go to fund the war on drugs.

 

Okay, provide data that shows how a countries government makes "lots of money" from building huge, state of the art, insanley expensive prisons. Where the hell do you think the return on that is? stunning

 

yep, they confiscate drug dealers property and auction it off.

 

because american tax dollars pay to build those prisons dude. you should know that living in Texas. Texas has more prisons and prisoners than any other state. what part of that don't you understand? by law enforcement's own admission there are more people locked up for nonviolent offenses than violent ones. i don't know if you've ever been sucked into the prison and jail system before or ever had to go to court over drugs. i, on the other hand have friends and relatives who have been.
it sucks so much money out of your pockets to be incarcerated. then when you get out on parole and are on paper your PO charges you money out the ass everytime you stop by and have an appointmenmt. let's not forget how drugs being illegal is a big money maker for attournies and law enforcement too.
the war on drugs employees a LOT of people. a prison guard makes more money than a teacher does. you know why? because the government makes more money off of jailing people than they do educating them. once you get sucked into the the court system it's very difficult to leave it behind. they know this too. it takes money to run these facilities, so of course money goes into maintaining them, not just building them. it';s been estimated it takes on average about fourty grand per year to feed and house each inmate. but i think the people running it may be cooking the books.
the returns come back several fold to the corporations that build these places and the governments they pay taxes to. plus, they use inmates as cheap labor. ever wondered why they get paid three cents per hour to make license plates for the DMV? it's all about the money. common sense says this. therefore it's not necessary to dig up facts and figures. here's also a ruile of thumb as seargent stadanko on up in smoke said

"the bigger the bust, the bigger the boost"

police departments get bigger budgets if they can arrest more people for drugs. like i said, simple economics.

 

Once you understand that CORPORATIONS run the government, you can better understand why there is so much money to be made by that government (or rather the bureaucrats running it), which is in bed together with the corporations. It's called fascism, which Mussolini said would be more accurately called corporatism. It's the corporations that run the government which make vast sums of money from taxpayers to build these prisons and everything that goes along with them.

In the US, we have something called a military-industrial complex. We also have a medical-industrial complex, a media-industrial complex, and a prison-industrial complex as well. The corporations and the government are merged at the highest levels.

 

You dont understand economics evidently, because everything you just said is almost entirely inaccurate. You just say whatever comes up in your mind, that might sound good, but that doesnt mean it actually is how things work. The government LOOSES, read it, LOOSES money off building prisons. They have to WASTE our tax money to build them when they could be using that tax money to build new schools, or help our troops in other countries. Your whole arguement is flawed and doesnt even make sense.

How does the govt. using our tax dollars to build new prisons somehow constitute the govt. making money from the prisons, when its being used to build them... you have no clue what your talking about

 

Oh thats why the Democrats whom have many who hate the corporations are allowed to control the Congress and quite possibly the country in 2009? Surely the corporations have enough control that this crazy scenario couldnt ever be the case...OH WAIT THATS THE CURRENT DAY SCENARIO!!!!! OMG

 

The Democrats and the Republicans are two sides of the same coin, and you have truly been duped if you believe the Democrats aren't in bed with the corporations every bit as much as the Republicans. You have bought into the rhetoric. There is no Democrat or Republican party because both sides are controlled by the same internationalist bankers and transnational corporations. The politicians are just frontmen for the real powers that be.

Why would the Democrats hate the corporations when all their money comes from these corporations? Don't you know there is a difference between what politicians say and what they do?

 

you haven;t disproven a word of what i've said. so stop trolling for an arguement already. you think our government wouldn't involve itself in something if there isn't money to be made in it? you've obviously not known very many people who end up in prison or have worked in one. i on the other hand have. i speak from personal experience. what do you speak from? i know as long as there's a demand for something a supply will be offered=simple economics

http://www.drugsense.org/wodclock.htm
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/economi.htm
if you think it's just organized crime making money off of all this you need to pry your eyelids open. this war on drugs has corrupted a lot of law enforcement officials as well who often times accept bribes or turn around and deal the drugs they confiscate.i've also seen cops who drive around a Jaguar as their personal vehicle. jags are not cheap cars and your average cop doesn't make a lot of money on his or hers salary. it makes money for both sides of the war on drugs. not just the so called badguys. saying the government only loses money when they build prisons is nonsense. uncle sam doesn't involve himself in something unless he can make money from it. which is why we're fighting a questionable war over in Iraq. unless you can actually disprove what i say, then please do yourself a favor and shut up already.

 

"you think our government wouldn't involve itself in something if there isn't money to be made in it?"

Absolutley, half the services the govt. provides are for non-profit, a 10 year old can tell you that. Your wrong on everything, but im not going to fight you on your conspiracies anymore, if you want to be a degenerative conspiritorial person that believes this stuff, thats fine by me, one less person competing with me in the real world.

 

and you don't even know the difference between your and you are.
even those non-profit services that are provided are often times tax write offs. you still haven't proven me wrong about anything i've said. your only response is "your wrong"

 

lol take apart my spelling, im sure that will make the mean person who discredits all my nutty conspiracies go away!!!

(btw ur spelling is bad too but idc its a forum)