It's become nothing but another big government racket, while giving government an excuse to ramp up war like tactics, developed a massive government paramilitary machine to be used against civilians, which has resulted in the creation of thousands of violent gangs who also make massive *profits* selling drugs which were made illegal.
The bigger picture?
Meanwhile, as big government winks and nods, big phrama is making astronomical profits and taxes for the government, pushing their drugs, "legally" as they've hooked half the population on *their* drugs and *their* feel good pain medicaitons.
Can you say OXYCODONE?
the pill mills in Florida crank them out..they get sold on the street, everybody is happy, everybody is making big bucks...and you can’t tell me that illegal drugs come into the US without a big political and LEA support system!and who does the money laundering? The banks who have to get bailed out.
Now they want to have a national database for prescription drugs...so they can target people like Rush and any other citizen who gets out of line and may even have a perfectly legal reason for pain meds...The Drug War is in collusion with the government.
Besides, the “minorities’ and young people are kept nicely quiet on the Govt Plantations( the detroit Plantation, the Atlanta Plantation, etc) so they don’t dare fight against massive govt control or vote out corrupt pols!