The legalization advocates immediately objected. It is pretty obvious from this statement that Clinton doesn't have a clue about what she's talking about. The reason there's so much money in selling drugs is because they are illegal. This is obvious to anybody who's had a week of Eco 101.
At the Drug War Chronicle, Scott Morgan called Clinton's argument "perfectly incoherent" and argued it flew in the face of economic theory.
I can't help but wonder what everyone on the left would say if this preposterous analysis came from Sarah Palin, rather than Hillary Clinton. It's the sort of profound nonsense that ought to get you skewered by Jon Stewart, yet our Secretary of State will almost certainly get a free pass on misunderstanding literally everything about the escalating violence below our border.
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If hemp were legalized, most of the profit would come from government subsidies to marijuana farmers.
This is a desperate answer. It is desperate because every possible approach available to her has been used, and she knows nothing...nothing else! She has totally used up her fund of ideas, and when a "war" doesn't work, obviously nothing works...
Why don't they just Waco-ize drugs?! Bill did that back in the 90's.
Drugs have been pretty well Waco-ized now, don't you think? I mean have you seen the way these so-called "police" forces involved in the drug war are accoutered? They look like battle squads in Afghanistan. We're a militarized society, my friend, and the war on drugs serves that purpose admirably.
In Waco-ization, everything but everything gets burned!
Most of the drugs escape the photo-op charade bonfires the DEA puts on for the press.
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