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Re:America Is Giving Away the $30B Medical Marijuana Industry by binarray2000 on Thursday March 08, 2018 @10:57AM (#16545099)
> If the demand for drug fighting just lost 90% of it's target, why do we need so many drug fighters? In terms of a real war, if an army just decimated 90% of it's enemy, it's time to send some troops back home.

Well, those people wouldn't be jobless as there are (serious) drugs to fight: Heroin and cocaine. But, that would be against the imperial interests of the USA, one powerful agency in particular. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_coca...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_traffi...

[3] https://www.globalresearch.ca/a-conspiracy-theory-that-becam...

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Heroin-Complicity-Global-Tra...

[5] https://www.amazon.com/Whiteout-Drugs-Press-Alexander-Cockbu...

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Re:America Is Giving Away the $30B Medical Marijuana Industry by beambot on Thursday March 08, 2018 @02:56PM (#16547136)
What about the domestic opioid epidemic...? Or is big pharma an unacceptable target for the WoD?
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Re:America Is Giving Away the $30B Medical Marijuana Industry by Clubber on Thursday March 08, 2018 @05:09PM (#16548165)
Given their track record, do you think the government would help or harm the opioid epidemic? If history serves, they will make it worse. They already have. Their crackdown on pills has made the heroin epidemic skyrocket. Heroin is not the best of two evils.
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