Who BENEFITS from the continued criminalization of marijuana?

Who LOSES from the drug war? You!

Even the Red Cross says decriminalize marijuana

Obama, the betrayer of the political left

(NaturalNews) If you happen to need even more evidence that President Obama has gutted his campaign promises and betrayed not only the left but alsowho enthusiastically supported his election, he has just gone public with his support for the continued. Keeping marijuana criminalized, it seems -- and keeping more African Americans in prison -- is a top priority for the Obama administration.This means Obama supports the midnight DEA raids on our citizenry; the filling of prisons with small-time pot smokers; the disproportionately punitive sentences handed down toacross America who aren't really criminals at all... they merely suffer from athat would more rightly be considered a medical issue.Nearly every country in Latin America has now openly and publicize recognized that the so-called "war on drugs" is a complete and total failure. But Obama thinks it's just great! Fill the prisons! Prosecute more blacks! Buy more guns and night vision gear for the DEA! That's what Obama's America stands for, it seems."I personally and my administration's position is that legalization is not the answer," Obama said just hours before the meeting of Latin American leaders at the Convention Centre in Cartagena, Colombia, for the Americas Summit ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-americ... ). Meanwhile, Obama's top Secret Service agents and military commanders werein the background, then refusing to pay them their $47 prostitution fee. ( https://www.naturalnews.com/035580_Secret_Ser... Obama had "no comment" on that particular issue.Let's get real about all this.. At least not for reducing crime and drug addiction. Anyone who thinks prohibition works is. But it does work for certain special interests. What are those special interests, anyway?If you really want to know why prohibition remains in place with marijuana, it's simple to find out why. Just ask yourself "Who benefits?"• The DEA. Without a drug "problem," the DEA won't get hundreds of millions of dollars worth of increases in operating budgets from the federal purse strings. If drugs were decriminalized, the DEA would have to be sharply downsized (which would be a great thing for liberty and safety but a terrible thing for the DEA honchos).• Private prisons. Thanks to illegal agreements between prison operators and state governments, prisons can put prisoners to work at-- just a few cents an hour -- manufacturing goods that the corporate prison owners sell for pure profit. If you thought the Nike sweatshops in Asia were bad, go visit a prison in the USA some time and watch the slave labor taking place right here at home.• Local police. The "drug war " is the excuse that local police departments use to receive more grant money for weapons, assault gear and now evento be used against the citizens. Without the drug war excuse, all this grant money disappears and these cops have to go back to actually serving the community instead of bashing in doors like a bunch of cocaine cowboys.• The government drug runners! It's now a well-known fact that the ATF, DEA and other government agencies are allacross America. Just Google any of these terms if you want to check it out for yourself. The ATF is even engaged in money laundering through the globalist banks. This is why government crackdowns on drugs are highly selectively -- drug raids are really just a way toso that the biggest drug dealer of all -- the government itself -- can continue to rake in the maximum profits. Legalizing drugs would obviously cause street prices to collapse, sucking all the profits out of the government-run drug business.• Local District Attorneys and prosecutors. Without the drug war to give them a juicy field of easy targets to prosecute, their careers would take a huge hit. It's so much harder to arrestcriminals than to go after pot smokers and raw milk farmers, isn't it? Gee, imagine the difficulty of actually fighting REAL crime for a change?• Big Government. The entire government benefits from the continued criminalization of drugs. For starters, it establishes the outrageous precedent that government can-- even a plant that has grown wild across North America for hundreds of years. This alone is an outrageous encroachment on fundamental human freedom. Beyond that, the government can always point to "drug violence" as another excuse to squash our freedoms and put in place a tyrannical police state. It's all "for your own good," of course. Isn't it always?• Big Pharma and the hospital industry. Because recreational drugs are illegal, they're often cut with dangerous chemicals that cause liver damage and kidney damage. This results in yet more repeat business for hospitals and the drug industry. If street drugs were legalized, they would be, and adulteration of those products would be extremely rare. They would bein other words, which is exactly what the pharmaceutical industry is dead set against. They only make money when people are damaged or sick from using street drugs concocted in somebody's trailer.So we've covered the beneficiaries of the drug war, but who loses from it? You do, of course: Your liberties, freedoms, tax dollars and personal safety are all threatened by the existence of the war on drugs. Decriminalizing and regulating these drugs would have an enormously positive impact on you and your life.If drugs were decriminalized, here's what would happen:• Drug gangs would vanish as their source of revenues (illegal drugs at black market prices) dry up.• Drug-related crime would sharply fall.• State revenues would skyrocket from the regulated sale of legalized marijuana.• The corrupt prison industry would collapse to perhaps only 25% of its current size.• Your personal safety and security would be greatly enhanced due to the lack of drug violence, shootings, home invasions and more.• Mexican drug gangs would lose their power base, resulting in a sharp drop in crime along the border.• Former "criminal" pot smokers would once again become taxpaying members of the workforce, contributing to the financial upkeep of society rather than draining it as prisoners.• Theacross society would sharply rise.It's all pure economics, my friends. Cause and effect. Legalize recreational drugs and you end the violence, the crime, the prison system overload and the entire underground market for the stuff.It's all so obvious that even thehas called for decriminalization ( http://copssaylegalize.blogspot.com/2012/03/... ).At the same time, countless members of the FBI, DEA and active-duty police organizations are also openly calling for decriminalization ( http://www.leap.cc/ ).The rational argument for ending prohibition is further detailed at www.Norml.org There are no rational reasons for keeping marijuana criminalized. There are onlyreasons for doing so. That's why Obama continues to support the irrational war on drugs -- because it's a political issue.Obama, of course, is. He does what they tell him to do, and right now they're telling him to keep pushing Drug War propaganda because it's a highly effective way to expand the police state and keep people living in fear while denying them access to plant-based medicine.Obama, it turns out, has betrayed the left so many times I can hardly keep count: He supports the GMO industry, he signed the NDAA which expands secret arrests and secret Gitmo-style prisons, he's an opponent of farm and food freedom ( https://www.naturalnews.com/035301_Obama_exec... ) and he has proven himself to be nothing more than a big business operative who defends the status quo while preaching "hope and change" that he never delivers.Obama has assaulted free speech, due process ( https://www.naturalnews.com/034537_NDAA_Bill_... ), medical freedom and parental rights. In doing so, he has betrayed many of the top priorities of the very people who once put him into office.He wants to keep marijuana criminalized because that's what the police stateof corporate control wants.Of course, this doesn't mean the alternatives we're given are going to be any better. This is not some pitch for Romney, for God's sake. That guy is just as much of a corporate sellout as Obama (and Bush before him). Elections are createdwhen, in reality, all they're voting for is which color of puppet they want to see on television while we're all being imprisoned, exploited, enslaved and oppressed by a growing fascist state.Care to guess which candidate would have decriminalized marijuana from the get-go? His name is Ron Paul, and the ideas of freedom and liberty that he espouses are the real answer for the future of our nation. No matter who shows up in the ballot box this November,, because he's the only candidate who is deeply committed to legalizing freedom in America.