WHOSE WAR ON DRUGS?

In my opinion the war on drugs was really created to pass a series of laws
that affect all citizens today. These laws were the beginning of the
government's control and the loss of privacy for all of us. The big
corporate drug companies wanted to protect their monopoly on the drugs.
They, in turn, with their huge profits, buy the president, senators and
representatives with their campaign contributions. This is the long and
short of it, and they are not concerned about the health and well-being of
the general population, only the profit.

Pharmacy employees have observed that in many cases the first prescription
is followed by a second for the side effects of the first, then a third for
the side effects of the second, and on and on. Big corporate drug companies
know a cure is not profitable but treating the symptoms and side effects is
very profitable.

To cover this greed the government created a cover-up, putting young people
in jail for life for doing no more than smoking a weed that grows
naturally. Once again big corporate business wins as these young lifers are
put to work for slave wages in Unicor. Unicor is factories within the
prison system that big corporations own and that are directly competing in
the marketplace with your company paying your wages and your health-care
insurance. The taxpayer is paying the prison costs and Unicor is reaping
the benefits.

This is a government that puts the greed of so few above the health and
well being of so many. The war on drugs was the inch we gave the
government. They took a mile and now we have the war on terrorism, the
Homeland Security Act and the Patriot Act. Check what rights we as citizens
lost this time. It will make you sick, but never fear, they'll find a pill
for that too.

Charlene Keener

Joplin