Quote:It's a combination of things but you hit a big one with the private prisons. It's big $$$ the narcotics system, the State uses it to justify huge budgets, the Private Prisons make a killing on the traffic in and out of the prisons, and finally the legislatures can't figure out a way to regulate it so only taxed entities wold grow it. The stuff grows so easy it would be difficult for them to say you can't just grow your own weed and sell it or use it (that would leave them out in the cold unable to tax it).

 

I think the war on drugs is the perfect illustration of what happens when we combine corporate greed and the states power, we all end up screwed and broke.