There is a reason the clearly losing war on drugs has continued for nearly a century. Instead of adjusting to more logical regulating of substances like we learned from alcohol prohibition, the war on drugs marches on.
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I mean to be fair the entire finance sector relies heavily on cocaine.
Say what you want about the failsons of neoliberalism, that are ~~Mexican~~ Latina American "cartels" (are they really cartels?), but they're the ones propping up the U.S economy I guess, if not acting as its pseudo-state actor military force for primitive accumulation and rentseeking
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