You can watch the full video here.
About 5 minutes in to the video there is a discussion about society and mind altering substances. Every society has them except for Eskimos. Only one or two though with the rest frowned upon or actively discouraged. There is no universal agreement on which two mind altering substances should prevail. Americans like alcohol (it is traditional), Saudis do not. And so it goes. All around the world.
The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World
Some people in Missouri are making an effort to get marijuana legalized. About 3 minutes into the video the pro-legalization guy explains that young people support it and old people are against it. Do the math. He thinks the math is good for 2012.
Drug Plants. No not that kind. It is police officers planting drugs to meet arrest quotas.
Cross Posted at Power and Control
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We have police being encouraged or pressured to improve their performance record with an acceptable number of arrests. We have the financial incentives of property seizures and poorly monitored funds for undercover drug purchases(remember Tulia.) Then there are the paid informants who may be deterring police scrutiny of their own activities or just raking in some nice change setting up others, including competitors, or if those are in short supply; innocents.
http://www.truth-out.org/former-narcotics-detective-admits-drug-planting-common/1320333381
It seems there’s money, benefits and power to be had on both sides of the drug war.
Oops, Simon covered that one. I meant to post a link to this.
http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2009/11/dallas-fake-drug-informant-shows-how.html