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The insane drug war began in Reagan's first term. As many of us have said upthread, the motive was profit for a few Republican cronies. Reagan cracked down on medicinal marijuana, all the states were forced to go along by threats of losing their federal funding, there was a highly-funded public relations campaign about the dangers of marijuana, and people started filling the prisons. Privately owned and operated prisons that get paid big bucks to incarcerate and practice abusive techniques on prisoners - practices that were put to work in Central and South America in the 1980s and that we're seeing now in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, and who knows where else.
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