Failure to learn from history.

Another blog  It's something that makes one wonder ;should I laugh or cry.The United States passed the 19th ammendment and caused the expansion and growth of a mafia that was a tiny problem that mainly existed in the Italian sections of major cities.By the time they passed the 22nd it was a world wide criminal enterprize with enough money and influence to effect the second world war,elect presidents and to send one of their sons to be president.Drug lords have already offered to write off the entire debt of a South American country and the largest state in the union.Marijuana growing is one of if not the major business in B.C.Like with alcohol prohibition,there will always be times when disagreements will cause violent outbreaks amongst gangster groups.The worst of these always come after a major player is removed from the scene.Police never do anything in a planned action but,rather react to situations in which they have at best faulty information.Is a gangster cooperating to reduce the opposition?To eliminate a powerful adversary?The police are so far behind in this city because they denied the problem for so long.They reacted with ire when outside help was offered.Now we have a bunch of politicians chasing their tails because people are angry.People are always angry.Thats why we have a seperate and Indapendant judiciary.People experienced with the law and it's applications.It's always easiest to make tough speeches and toughen laws.All that ever does is take rights away from us all with no effect on those who opperate beyond the law.It's sad that with another failed and unpopular prohibition just 90 years back that our politicians seem oblivious to it's consequences.I could point to claims and speeches that these same politicians were making just 10 years ago that had this problem under control.Don't blame the judges.They have seen abuses on both sides of the law.If the laws prohibiting drugs from adult p[ossession were ended tomorrow,these gangs would move somewhere else where fools still think a drug free world is a possibility.Prohibition is a lie propagated by people making billions off of it.Heroin,like alcohol is a disease.All these problems have answers.Prohibition is the absolute worse approach possible.It won't get any better.You don't fight something that will grow almost anywhere by passing a law.Opium is thousands of years old.Even the police know this.they're just scared to say it out loud.