How Our Absurd Drug War Hurts Everyone

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3. Or conversely, we learn to enjoy provoking bombast, at the cost of civility in general

but it sure is exciting, especially if we can put a moral layer on it.

I think the OP nailed it. It's not about pot, it's not about drugs, its about the fact that they are deliberately ignoring a wave of burglaries and housebreakings and letting the criminals get away with it, in order to hassle a bunch of college students. EVERY right-wing property owner ought to be up in arms about that, and if they're not, they should be screaming for the police to give them THEIR arms so that they can do the cops' fucking JOB.