Drug Policy

Oh, they've had a fine run over the 40+ years of conservative rule from both parties that had the gummint using everything at its disposal to spy on and crack down on ordinary citizens, especially those of color, using a War Against Drugs as their main pretext. However, people have seen through this at last and the Feds are caught completely unprepared. What on earth are they going to do with all these men who have made lucrative careers based on this stuff, from local police departments fat with forefeiture to paramilitary groups in countries overseas, to the bank honchos gleefully laundering big money?

Men without a mission can be dangerous. The NSA was started to listen to the Soviet bloc during the Cold War. Deprived of its mission in the late 80s, they had to scramble around to find another one. We're it.

An end to the drug war will have to include reassigning all the drug warriors to something to keep them occupied, or they'll go the way of the NSA.