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Back in this thread are several articles and reports regarding some of the issues you mention in your post. The profitability of keeping it illegal is one. The agent this evening was plainly just a model role player who suited the the storyboard.

I meant to ping you on my post #327. It is an answer to Mojave, but related to your point about profitability. It is our huge federal prohibition expenditures that keep the price of cannabis artificially high and the reason that organized crime stay interested in it. Sadly, it is also the reason for over 700,000 arrests per year and the damage done to those individuals livelihood.

328 posted on 03/06/2006 5:32:09 AM PST by winston2 (In matters of necessity let there be unity, in matters of doubt liberty, and in all things charity:)

Having read quite a bit on Hoover's FBI ties with the Mob, one wonders if ties still exist. On trips to DC, I always find it curious the FBI building is still named after him. As far as I'm concerned, he was the antonym of the definition of Law Enforcement.

He was perfect at pursuing the small guy and courting the big crooks.