This to me just totally seems like something they would do.
The drug war is a disaster in itself that was started by the deep state in order to wage war on Americans, anyway. Like every deep state plan they phrase it as something that's for our own good. After decades of drug war, overdoses are at an all-time high, drug-use is at an all-time high, deep state was flooding inner cities with crack, using drugs as pretext for violation of 2A, as well as excessive and seizure and civil asset forfeiture. I could go on at length about this but that's what my assessment of what the plan is.
Trump said in office that if congress gave him a bill to legalize cannabis he'd sign off on it, but otherwise took no real action. As someone who works in legal cannabis I was very pleased with how much he left us alone at the state level and only intervened in operations that trafficked stuff into or out of their respective legalized states, therefore breaking the laws of the states that legalized it and infringing on the sovereignty of states that didn't.
Now the deep state is trying to sell conservatives on more drug war by hyping up military intervention against the cartels. Was that ever necessary when Trump was in office? We don't need another long drawn out expensive foreign military intervention, he had a great relationship with the president of Mexico and was working with him to clean up corruption!
But I think the deep state will try this, give a too-little-too-late concession (they've already lost the optics war for the most part and now just appear brazenly tyrannical) on cannabis legalization, and have their controlled op conservative mouthpieces really step up the attacks on cannabis, so it drives the liberty minded people and moderates away from conservatives and back towards Dems.
And it's really fucking funny seeing all these conservatives/GOP who for the last few years were ranting and raving about tyrannical government and appearing to be the "party of liberty" jumping back on the prohibition train and speaking out against cannabis.
God damn I hate RINOs. If it weren't for Trump I would probably vote libertarian, except the Libertarian party is also fundamentally broken.
The sooner we legalize all recreational drugs the better IMO.Once the prices drop,there will be no cartels.Dopers gonna dope.The casualty rate is supposedly why it's illegal.When I look at the people in pain because marijuana is illegal,it enrages me.They are caught in a world of risk or be in pain.Primarily our veterans and elderly.
Please come and visit Kensington in Philadelphia, where people are literally losing limbs due to continually shooting up at and around the open-air drug market.
Then tell me we should legalize all recreational drugs.
I lost a wife and many friends and family to dope.If it is no longer illegal,there is no profit in it.No turf to fight over,no draw to the gangs other than what would be there anyway.People who want to get high or drunk and fight will always be there.I would wager that most shootings are over community status or conflicts between drug financed gangs.Our young people,particularly our poor frequently have no hope of wealth or prestige within their neighborhood.No car,no ability to have their own home.No hope.Deep state maintains this environment in order to keep a market for drugs.Drugs are a primary commerce in American power broking all over the world.I saw it all over the world.America is the primary culprit in drug trafficking.As a fren noted,we don't want to make it legal,just not illegal.I once felt as you do.I will note that I was a Marine and later a nurse,ER,surgical-scrub and circulator.Nurse manager for a surgery unit.16 years in ICU.Yes, I've treat injured from the shootings,stabbings,curbing,overdoses,gangrenous needle riders.The war on drugs will never be won until we remove the profit at all levels.IMHO.