I've been predicting this since the RIGHTWING president of Colombia, Manual Santos--where the U.S. has recently spent $7 BILLION of your tax dollars and mine (at minimum) to stamp out illegal drugs--called for the complete legalization of all drugs. Then the RIGHTWING president of Guatemala joined him in this call.
Not Hugo Chavez. Not Evo Morales. Not the Leftists. The Rightists!
I thought, WTF is going on here? But it didn't take me long to figure out that the entire U.S. "war on drugs" was about stamping out the "little guys"--the poor peasant farmers and the smaller illegal drug networks--before Big Ag/Big Pharma made their Big Move to monopolize the trade through legalization. The U.S. "war on drugs" was also used to slaughter labor leaders and other advocates of the poor, in the thousands, in Colombia, as prep for U.S. "free trade for the rich"--and, of course, the two things--Big Corporate taking over the drug trade, and "free trade for the rich"--go hand in hand.
We've seen a parallel process here in the U.S.--the U.S. government harassing, SWAT-teaming, arresting, prosecuting and destroying the lives of small MJ entrepreneurs, as prep for Corporate Legalization. And the frigging FBI/DoJ has been doing this EVEN AFTER A STATE VOTED TO LEGALIZE!
BILLIONS AND BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of your tax dollars and mine to eradicate small marijuana, coca leaf and poppy GROWERS throughout the world--NOT to stop the drug trade--which, or course, it has never done--but to stop the drug TRADERS--to steal their ideas, products and trade, and to militarize and brutalize entire countries, to imprison millions of people, to kill people, and to destroy local power and sovereignty, while Big Ag/Big Pharma got its patents in order, etc., for the GMO-ization of herbal, medicinal, recreational or addictive, formerly illegal drugs.
It is no surprise to me that Canada--which has colluded with the U.S. on the brutal exploitation of Latin American resources and labor--has started this ball rolling in the northern hemisphere.
I have long been opposed to the U.S. "war on drugs"--from the very beginning, when Nixon initiated it. It is among the worst U.S. policies in the modern era, right up there with the wars on Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Its human and monetary costs may be far worse than those wars, all told. The prison-industrial complex is one horrendously evil product of the "war on drugs." There are many more, including the brutalization and militarization of many Latin American countries, and the expansion of the Pentagon to everywhere.
This corrupt, murderous, failed U.S. policy has gone on for nearly half a century! It absolutely must be ended. But the miserable fact is that it couldn't be ended until its Corporatization was assured. Because why? Because "we the people" aren't in charge any more. In a real democracy, insane policies like the "war on drugs" would have been ended swiftly, on the basis of common sense, and by consensus. We don't have that democracy any more. Some tight, powerful cabal of the "military-industrial complex" is calling all the shots. THEY have decided that the trillion+ dollar illicit drug revenue stream should be flowing into THEIR pockets (wherever the CIA and the banksters haven't already been able to divert it by stealth!). They want it all. That is what is happening--not "liberalization," but CORPORATIZATION.
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