Pelosi condemns Obama’s continued raids on marijuana dispensaries

[Peace Patriot]

127. At first glance, I thought this was an "Onion" article.

Lol! (I really did.)

But then I remembered my own comments here at DU about the RIGHTWING presidents in Latin America who are the ones publicly, visibly pushing for drug legalization. I was, at first, agog about that, too.

That's right, folks! Not the corporate-demonized "Hugo" and his ilk but the corporate (and CIA) vetted and approved Manual Santos, president of Colombia, and the few other rightwing leaders in LatAm, have been touting drug legalization. The only friends of the U.S.--and of the Obama administration--in LatAm are either rightwing or far rightwing, alas--and they are leading the charge on legalization.

It started with right/centrists--former presidents of Mexico--a commission of which said (about a year ago), 'legalize marijuana' and re-think the entire "war on drugs." Then Santos, recently. My jaw dropped on that one--there is nobody on earth who has more profited from the U.S. "war on drugs" than the right and the far right in Colombia! (SEVEN BILLION DOLLARS of U.S. taxpayer money and counting!). Then the rightwing president of Guatemala joined Santos in calling for total legalization of all drugs.

So, what's with this?

And, to bring us to the present moment, and Nancy Pelosi, what can have prompted Pelosi to risk being crucified by war profiteer/police state interests, not to mention the Obama White House? Surely not the wishes of her constituents! (I mean, the voters.)

Is it the same thing that prompted Santos and other rightists in LatAm to risk not getting invited to Secret Service parties?...um...oh forget it, you know what I mean.

WHAT IS BEHIND THIS? I.e., what is behind friends of the Obama administration running this one up the flagpole?

A couple of relevant facts and educated guesses:

1. The Bush Junta was using the U.S. "war on drugs" to consolidate the cocaine trade into fewer hands and better direct its trillion dollar revenue stream to certain beneficiaries (the Bush Cartel, the CIA, U.S./transglobal banksters, etc.) (They flipped the "war on drugs" over into its opposite purpose--a "war" FOR "drugs.&quot

2. Part of that Bushwhack effort was to brutally displace FIVE MILLION peasant farmers from their lands in Colombia--THE worst human displacement crisis on earth--to make way, first of all, for the big illicit drug lords (including the 'mafia' boss they had running Colombia, Alvaro Uribe), and also for transglobal corporate interests (Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Occidental Petroleum, Drummond Coal, Monsanto, Chiquita, et al). (Note: They also saw to the murder of thousands of trade unionists, teachers, community activists, political leftists and other advocates of the poor, to prep for U.S. "free trade for the rich," which Obama has carried through to completion--the U.S./Colombia 'free trade for the rich" agreement signed, sealed and delivered.)

3. Presidents of U.S. client states, such as Colombia, DON'T TAKE "HOT" POLITICAL POSITIONS (like legalizing drugs) without at least a behind-the-scenes okay from the White House.

4. The White House--whether it's held by a Democrat or a Puke (or a Puke junta)--serves transglobal corporations. Which transglobal corporate interest would benefit the most from legalization? Big Pharma.

My best guess is that Big Pharma had done all its R&D and is ready to take over the market for herbal, recreational and addictive drugs, through legalization. Obama can't yet openly support legalization but has agreed to others getting the ball rolling, from outside the country (LatAm's rightwing leaders) and now from within.

Another best guess: The Fed raids on medical marijuana clinics have the same purpose as the massive displacement of the peasant farmers in Colombia. Many of those peasant farmers grew a few coca plants along with food for their families and communities. Some of those coca leaves were sold to cocaine manufacturers, to eke out poverty incomes; others were for local use (coca leaves are an Indigenous medicine). The Bushwhacks turned the "war on drugs" to the purpose of eliminating these millions of small players to make way for the big players. The medical marijuana clinics are the small players, here. They have to be driven out of business, as a preliminary to Big Pharma taking over the market.

We need to put aside "opinion manipulation"--whether by Democrats or Pukes--to understand what is really going on in the world. Opinion manipulation by Democratic Party leaders and some Democratic Party activists (note: I am a lifelong Democrat and activist) often says or implies that any realistic discussion of, say, who Obama is serving, is somehow disloyal and anti-Democratic and will lose him the election.

Well, I intend to vote for Obama, in an ES&S/Diebold controlled election system that I am sure has rigged elections, even though I disagree with his positions and actions on almost every front, because, a) I don't intend EVER to give up my right to vote--never, ever, EVER, no matter how rigged it is, and b) I'm glad the Bush Junta is out, for whatever reasons they are out (for now)--a few thousand civilians drone-bombed around the world is "better" than hundreds of thousands of innocent people slaughtered for their oil and thousands tortured, with the rule of law gone kaplooey; and, little helps to the poor, here, like extending unemployment, are better than nothing (for those historically-minded, Hoover was better than Coolidge...um, literally, eating is better than starving, no matter what else is happening).

So, believe me, I am not "anti-Obama." (Some of the comments above imply that anyone who criticizes Obama is "anti-Obama" and will be responsible for a Bush Junta comeback.) But I AM a realist. And I have been following developments in LatAm very closely.

This push for legalization coming from the RIGHT in LatAm is totally puzzling, on a superficial political and foreign relations level. Something's up--and I think that this is what it is: Big Pharma is making its move.

This explains both Obama/Holder's actions--driving the small, local, marijuana businesses out, with Fed raids, imprisonment and confiscation--and political "friends" of Obama (rightwing presidents in LatAm and Pelosi) REMARKABLY coming out for legalization. (The rightwing LatAm leaders are saying legalize all drugs; Pelosi, only marijuana, as I understand it, or only medical marijuana--but the legalization move in LatAm also started with marijuana--from the right/center Mexican leaders.)

The LEFT in LatAm (by far the majority) has not said much about it, but, in some ways, has spoken with its actions. Venezuela and Bolivia, for instance, threw the DEA out of their countries. Ecuador evicted the U.S. military base (that had been "justified" as a drug surveillance base). All countries with leftist leaders are opposed to the U.S. military presence in LatAm, which has crept in under the guise of the "war on drugs." They know that its ultimate purpose--as amply demonstrated in Colombia--is to kill peasants and leftists, and to throw civil life into bloody chaos (as in Mexico) as tactics of conquest.

Bolivia legalized the coca leaf (the Indigenous medicine, not cocaine.) But the Left has not been a big promoter of legalization, in general--probably because they have huge, rightwing (fascist) drug gangs to deal with, and probably also because the State Department makes a big propaganda point against leftist governments of their "non-cooperation" in the U.S. "war on drugs" (i.e., non-cooperation in U.S. destruction of their societies). The Left has no chance to counter this propaganda in the Corporate Press (which is as bad in LatAm as it is here). So they have not--visibly, publicly--said that the "war on drugs" is a bunch of shit. The RIGHT can say this (for their own reasons). The Left dare not. There may be consensus, at this point, among all LatAm leaders--but it is the RIGHT that is leading the charge on legalization.

What about the War Profiteers (whom Obama also serves)? That is a difficult question, if my thesis is correct, that Big Pharma is behind the push for legalization.

The "war on drugs" has been the War Profiteers' backup boondoggle--in addition to outright war--and it also greatly profits the "prison-industrial complex" and all sorts of military/police state entities here and elsewhere. I don't have a good guess about this, but I'm thinking that the U.S. and state/local governments were looted and bankrupted by the Bushwhacks, and that Obama could wipe out the federal deficit and put state/local governments back in business by ONE policy: legalization.

There may be a "war" going on between Big Pharma (and associated corporate interests) and the War Profiteers (and associated corporate interests), but these interests are also part of a continuum--for instance, in the case of driving millions of peasants off the land in Colombia. In other words, the War Profiteers know their role--they pave the way for other transglobal business interests--and maybe they have enough to do now, trying to consolidate and extend the oil corps' interest in the Middle East (and the pipeline in Afghanistan). Also, a bankrupt U.S. is less of a milk-cow for war. Think how great it will be for the War Profiteers to see the infusion of major bucks into U.S. government coffers from legalization, both from taxation and from down-sizing of the "prison-industrial complex" and associated interests. Is this (the push for legalization) part of a "war" between competing transglobal corporate interests, or is it part of the "war" continuum?

As I said, I don't have a settled opinion about this yet but the rightwing promotion of legalization in LatAm (and now Pelosi) makes it quite clear, it seems to me, that there IS a big corporate interest involved, on the side of legalization--Big Pharma and associated corporations (like Monsanto) being the obvious candidate. Bear in mind that the rightwing, most especially in Colombia, has hugely profited from "war on drugs" dollars. Why would they give that up? Answer: because the "war on drugs" mission has been "accomplished" and now they are ready to move on to the "laundering" of their biggest economic sector: illicit drugs.