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Blogging against the drug war

I discovered yet another special interest blog, and this one is a lot more interesting than the Walmart blog mentioned earlier. Last One Speaks - Voices of Reason in the Cacophony of Drug War Rhetoric is devoted entirely to the war on drugs, with frequent posts linking to various sources.

Reading the posts on this blog, and the linked articles, makes me really mad at my fellow human beings. How can the country continue to support an unwinnable drug war that's costing us billions of dollars and creating a whole host of problems that are far worse than damage that would be caused if we let people legally smoke some joints?

Hopefully blogs like this can turn the tide of public opinion, but for some reason I doubt it will happen. The war on drugs has lasted far longer than the Prohibition of alcohol, which only survived fourteen years. Why does the war on drugs have such staying power in comparison to Prohibition? The answer lies with the power of the mass media to control the way we think. A large part of the war on drugs is devoted to brainwashing America into being opposed to drugs. Back in the 1920s, there was no television, and although there were movies and radio, Hollywood and Madison Avenue back then were only beginning to learn how to use the mass media to control the way people think. Unfortunately, there is no way that a small number of libertarian blogs can fight back against the huge amount of government money being spent to make people support the war on drugs.

posted Wednesday, May 05, 2004