the government they are full of hooey.


The Drug War is primarily about governmental politics and governmental power.

Not about drugs.

Can't afford to look soft on crime, or your opposition will stomp you.

The government uses these "wars" to claim ever greater power over us.

To justify violent no-knock searches by agents not even carrying warrants.

To justify killing the 'exclusion rule' to protect police not citizens.

To justify draconian asset forfeiture laws.

To justify using deadly force.


It's no longer the 1920s, but our government still has reefer madness.

In another astonishing case of corruption due to Congressional asset
forfeiture laws, and yet another violent result of marijuana's Schedule
I Substances classification:

    ABC news: the Parks Department wanted a prime piece of land called
    "Trail's End". It was owned by a private family. They refused to sell.

    The reporter is in the helicopter with the agent who identified marijuana
    growing on the property from an identical helicopter fly-over.

    The agent said he specializes in that sort of thing, and he was flown
    over the property for an evaluation.

    He told the other federal agents that he could not determine that there
    was any.

    The G-MEN flew him over again: "they pressured me to change my evaluation,
    and I did, even though I couldn't detect any marijuana. They got me to
    say 'maybe I see some for sure'."

    A large multi-departmental group of federal and county agents stormed the
    house, and shot the male owner to death.

    The widow continues to live there.

    Before moving in, law enforcement had the property appraised for its value.

    Eventual