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http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/05/25/black-911-a-walk-on-the-dark-side-part-3/

40 years of fighting the war on drugs has not resulted in victory.

It's just another of the endless wars to suppress the people and rob our future of the peace and prosperity that is the human potential.

The more one studies the dark history of the US national security state, the more transparent the CIA – Wall Street connections become. The links to the international drug trade are less obvious, but have existed from the beginning, that is, from the days of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the CIA. Time and again, the same pattern has played out: US military interventions in Southeast Asia, Central America and, since 2001, Afghanistan and Iraq, have been accompanied by a sharp increase in narco-trafficking, with all of the attendant evils. These include the plague of drug...

Yep. The war on drugs was phenomonally successful!

It allowed the government to bypass the constitution for 30 years until it could start an even more effective war, the war on terrorism.