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Now, you might wonder why I'm asking that question. Well, that's probably because you're one of the suckers who believes that the War on Drugs is -- or ever has been -- about drugs. But of course it isn't. It's never been about drugs. When Nixon declared the War on Drugs, he wasn't actually declaring war on drugs. He didn't give a s*** how much pot people smoked or how much acid they dropped. He was a lizard person, remember. Lizard people don't view humans as people. They view humans as prey. Nixon could no more have cared about the horrors of drug abuse than a newt could care about the feelings of the fly he just snagged with his tongue and is in the process of eating. As a sociopath, he simply was biologically incapable of feeling anything for human beings.
So if the War on Drugs was never about the horrors of drug abuse... why, then? Okay, let me count the ways...
1. A strike against the counterculture. The counterculture had our lizard overlords scared s***less. You had all these young people who'd tuned in, turned on, dropped out, who were going out onto the land and growing their own food and s***, not buying, not consuming... how were the lizard people going to continue their project of farming humans for profit if the humans left the plantation and went off on their own? But see, the "back to nature" counterculture had a fatal flaw: even early 20th century subsistence farmers needed a "cash crop" to buy those things that could not be grown or made on the farm, things like farm implements, cloth, jars for canning food, and so forth. And given their origins, pharmaceuticals were a primo cash crop for the counterculture. So basically, the War on Drugs allowed the lizard people to destroy the counterculture, which was a direct threat to their plantation economy where humans are farmed for profit.
2. Put those uppity Negros in their place. It's not an accident that drugs that are most popular with minorities are also the drugs whose use or possession or sale results in the largest penalties. By giving the most onerous punishments to drugs primarily used by minorities, the War on (Some) Drugs accomplishes two things simultaneously -- it gets some scary darkies off the street (and, sister, *all* darkies are scary to tighty whitey bigot-Americans), and it disenfranchises these darkies so they won't be voting (they won't be votin' for sure while in jail, and mostly will be disqualified from voting after they get out of jail too). Can't let the darkies vote, why, they might vote for someone who, like, isn't a bigot! The horror, the horror! So by putting 25% of all black men into the criminal justice system, you give a wink and nod to poor white trash upset that now black people are as good as them under the law. And by removing the ability of these minorities to vote, you do more to preserve white power than all KKK covens combined.
3. Expand the paramilitary forces available to the lizard people. The lizard people don't understand why, but they do understand that their programs that result in large numbers of "surplus" humans dying of starvation, exposure, or lack of medical care are unpopular with the majority of human beings and can only be imposed by force. By providing huge sums of money and motivation for militarizing the police forces, the lizard people now no longer need to hire Pinkertons to deal with uppity humans who dare resist their program of human farming with methods other than whining and wringing of hands. Instead, they have a huge number of paramilitary policemen trained to believe that all "civilians" are The Enemy and whose notion of "serve and protect" is to serve and protect their lizard overlords, not the human beings who pay their salaries.
So is the War on (Some) Drugs a success? Why... yes! It's a *SMASHING* success! Why do you ask?
Why you can drink your liver off but not smoke crack, let alone weed. There's something fundamentally off about it. I'd understand it if we were living in an age where people have more religious views on how the world should be run: "it must be like this or the wrath of god will strike upon us!"... oh wait we're still mentally there, my bad. You need all the science and research to argue which drug is more dangerous, but the fact remains that people react differently to different drugs, for a plethora of different reasons. We all have things we are okay and things we are not okay with, and it is not one size for everyone.
One way to be self-sufficient is to move out of the city and start permaculture farming. Just save enough money to buy a land for yourself and start doing it. It's just one solution, and a stepstone, but with it you have done much regarding how much a single person in this world can do, apart from going to politics and being the next jfk and getting shot by some secret service cower agent.