I decided that the war on drugs is completely necessary. Why? How else can the state have a work force that is coherent enough to be a labor force? If opium were widely ready and legal, I think you would see a big increase in use, because it relieves the pain from being fucked by the system. No honestly, I think that is why drugs aren't legal. You can say everything about education for something, but if people are looking for fulfillment they can't find in gross consumerism (especially now), then who wouldn't want to be totally obliterated.
Of course it doesn't completely stop drug flow, but it isolates it gives the state more power and marginalizes the complaints of addicts. No one ever asks why people want to do drugs (besides some are fun recreational), but why do some people always have to be either on uppers or downers, being flat fucking sucks. There may be something inherently flawed in the structure of western civilization, who knows? Maybe people really can't stand working 40 +hours a week (I am getting so off topic).
For the people criminilaziation isn't necessary, to maintain the states power and keep people in the dream, it is.
@Akuma - Dude. I know how many people smoke weed. I live in California. I go to UC Berkeley. I stayed in Santa Cruz for a while. Even when I lived in a little ass rural town in California (Sonora) with 4000 people in it, weed was extremely prevalent (so was meth though). I know its an anecdote, but I don't think I'm unrealistic about who smokes weed. I used to deal in high school, once to my girlfriends dad. ( it was awkward when we broke up and he still came to my workplace and asked to by an O).
I love you Akuma.
HOLY SHIT I WAS JUST looking at UN world drug report 2007. $8 gram for cocaine in the Congo and 90 cents for a gram of weed in like libya. Amazing.
