http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LayaGk0TMDc
”Just before 1914 the government said, ‘we have 1.3% of the people in this country addicted to drugs’… so they passed [the Harrison anti-drug act]. Fast forward 56 years to 1970… In 1970, the government said ‘1.3% of the population is addicted to drugs, can’t have it, got to start a war on drugs.’ 36 years later, and a trillion dollars, and all these lives lost: 1.3% of the population is addicted to drugs.”
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