It's not about stopping drugs, but making money off the illusion of fighting drugs.
Private prisons, local jails/prisons make money housing overflow from prisons, and local law enforcement makes money seizing property with out charges or convictions. The list goes on and on
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“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.”
-- Ulysses S. Grant
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