The War on Drugs serves only one purpose: To insure the the price of the product stays high, and trade is very profitable. That way the CIA can get the highest dollar for their import trade from around the world.
But there are consequences which may be unintended. The CIA isn’t the only player in the game. Someone else is making a lot of profit — the manufacturers. Much of our supply comes from or through Mexico, and the manufacturers and shippers are well known to us as drug cartels. They are getting pretty busy lately. All the comforts of foreign warfare on our own doorstep.
Of course, it won’t stay in Mexico. It has already slipped across the border some time ago. As the violence of the warfare grows there, so it will grow here. Car bombs will show up across the border very soon, I expect. Open warfare in the streets and mass casualties among innocent bystanders will come with them. It’s just beginning.
As you know, our federal government has already shown the perverse intention of arresting and prosecuting anyone who dares to defend themselves from this scourge. No, I don’t mean the peasant workers who migrate; they are a different sort of problem. The drug trade doesn’t need them. And it doesn’t matter why our government won’t do its job. What we have to deal with is the utter certainty it won’t, and in the big middle of all the noise about “wetbacks” is the failure to do the one thing which would stop the drug cartel violence right quickly: stop the War on Drugs.
I’m not saying drugs aren’t a problem, but we haven’t begun to think about other ways which actually would work to reduce consumption. Yes, I know it would require a dramatic and unthinkable change in American society, so I’m not expecting any real change for the better. No, I’m expecting the border regions will see the Mexican Mafia Drug War stuff in full bloom just as it grows and prospers in Mexico. The War on Drugs simply becomes the War over Drug Profits.
It’s already started, but it has only just started. We haven’t seen anything, yet.
