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Drug laws aren't supposed to stop people from using drugs, and that hasn't been the goal for a while now. The goal is to give them a reason to request military

Drug laws aren't supposed to stop people from using drugs, and that hasn't been the goal for a while now. The goal is to give them a reason to request military-grade toys, and to give them a "reason" to use said military toys despite not being in a war zone. Their thinking (perhaps correctly) is that if they don't use it, they'll lose it. And this is before we consider lobbying of the for-profit prisons who are literally trying to have innocent people thrown in jail. (0) (0) http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2011/02/22/judge-found-guilty-in-cash-for-kids-case-mother-of-child-not-pleased/ http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2011/02/22/judge-found-guilty-in-ca... Edit: Corrected the link, my mistake.

jiggy2011 12y ago
FWIW this article is about the UK where we don't usually have these issues.
aidos 12y ago
You were downvoted for this an I'd like to hear the reason why. Ignoring the UK / US argument, it does feel like there's a lot of effort pumped into "fighting" drugs when it's fairly obvious it doesn't do anything to stop drug use. Which does call into question the many people who have full time jobs analysing and enforcing this work.
adventured 12y ago
As though the government's prison system isn't for profit. Of course it is. That's exactly what all those jobs, tax dollars, and slave labor represent. The for-profit prisons are nothing compared to the money being generated by the government in "non-profit" prisons. It's a small fraction of the prison system in the US. The government puts innocent people in jail in numbers radically greater than the for-profit prison system; this spans everything from dirty cops, dirty prosecutors, dirty judges, and the government's drug war - and the government has been doing it to the tune of millions of innocent people put in prison over decades. And yet somehow the tiny corporate prison system is the big concern, it's laughable.

jiggy2011 12y ago

FWIW this article is about the UK where we don't usually have these issues.

aidos 12y ago

You were downvoted for this an I'd like to hear the reason why. Ignoring the UK / US argument, it does feel like there's a lot of effort pumped into "fighting" drugs when it's fairly obvious it doesn't do anything to stop drug use. Which does call into question the many people who have full time jobs analysing and enforcing this work.

adventured 12y ago

As though the government's prison system isn't for profit. Of course it is. That's exactly what all those jobs, tax dollars, and slave labor represent. The for-profit prisons are nothing compared to the money being generated by the government in "non-profit" prisons. It's a small fraction of the prison system in the US. The government puts innocent people in jail in numbers radically greater than the for-profit prison system; this spans everything from dirty cops, dirty prosecutors, dirty judges, and the government's drug war - and the government has been doing it to the tune of millions of innocent people put in prison over decades. And yet somehow the tiny corporate prison system is the big concern, it's laughable.