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The “War On Drugs” Is A $2.5 Trillion Racket: How Big Banks, Private Military Companies And The Prison Industry Cash In

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The War on Drugs has cost US taxpayers over $2.5 trillion dollars. From 1998 – 2008, a UN study estimates that the use of opiates has increased 35 percent and cocaine use has increased 27 percent. Due to nonviolent drug offenses, the US prison population has increased “more than twelvefold since 1980.”

The War on Drugs has also fueled organized crime and drug related violence has dramatically increased over the past few years. Due to drug war violence, since December of 2006, a stunning 45,000 people have been killed in Mexico alone. http://ampedstatus.org/the-war-on-drugs-is-a-2-5-trillion-dollar-racket-how-big-...
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3 comments // The “War On Drugs” Is A $2.5 Trillion Racket: How Big Banks, Private Military Companies And The Prison Industry Cash In

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    • The pharmaceutical companies seem to have an endless amount of drugs for just about any psychological disorder a person might suffer. They seem to have a pill for everything except GREED. Greed is the most corrupt, base, vile, destructive, deadly, selfish, inhumane..... psychological disorder to disease the human mind. There isn't even a patch to help curve the cravings.

      Economicist, politicians, bankers, media and other people of record can use facts, figures, pie charts and all other smoke and mirrors to justify the ecomony. When you strip it all down and take a real look the U.S. and world economy is based in Greed. Nothing more than the a childish desire runs the entire financial world. Viva La Money!

      The Drug War is just another one of Greeds poisons affecting the world and making the virus (Wealthy Interest) stronger by sucking the life out of everything.

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