Krassner on Raich

Paul Krassner blogs at Huffington Post on a Raich related theme. He has a lot more to say but I really liked this quote.

Last year, the White House anti-drug campaign spent $170 million on insidious propaganda, working closely with the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, which was founded and funded by tobacco, alcohol, and pharmaceutical companies. Prescription drugs annually take 100,000 lives across the nation, but as long as any government can arbitrarily decide which drugs are legal and which drugs are illegal, then all those individuals who serve time behind bars for illegal drugs are actually political prisoners.

Think about the irony there. The Partnership for a Drug-Free America, was founded and funded by tobacco, alcohol, and pharmaceutical companies. They're the biggest drug dealers in the country and it's in their best interests to keep drugs they don't control, illegal. Simple as that.

Simple logic indeed. Like Bob Dylan said, "You don't have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."