@General Lighting 986669 wrote:
True, but these countries are in the same places as they were back then and even that would be an advance on Hollywood; who still seem to think that Japan and Korea are the same country and that everywhere else around there is “China” :laugh_at:
What makes no sense globally is why the DEA even needs to exist on its own anyway, rather than the FDA (which I assume employs actual doctors and scientists) dealing with the regulation of legal pharms and the FBI handling law enforcement issues. Even if the laws changed and many controlled drugs were permitted for recreational use you’d still need cops to deal with such things as DUI, folk who stubbornly refused to comply with regulations or those who committed crimes whilst under the influence (which is exactly what happens in Europe and elsewhere).
No other nation in the world (not even CN or countries with even worse situations like PH or ID) has an entire separate law enforcement agency simply for drugs-related issues.
The DEA just seems to be around to ban stuff thats fun like Saliva, Bath Salts and Spice; it was formed by Richard Nixon to try to persecute left wing elements and minorities.
Here’s a quote from Hunter S. Thompson about Tricky Dick: “Nixon’s spirit will be with us for the rest of our lives — whether you’re me or Bill Clinton or you or Kurt Cobain or Bishop Tutu or Keith Richards or Amy Fisher or Boris Yeltsin’s daughter or your fiancee’s 16-year-old beer-drunk brother with his braided goatee and his whole life like a thundercloud out in front of him. This is not a generational thing. You don’t even have to know who Richard Nixon was to be a victim of his ugly, Nazi spirit.
He has poisoned our water forever. Nixon will be remembered as a classic case of a smart man shitting in his own nest. But he also shit in our nests, and that was the crime that history will burn on his memory like a brand. By disgracing and degrading the Presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.”
