Watching on Paramount. Bud Light is the major sponsor. WTH!

I mean with how many lives alcoholism destroys, it makes perfect sense to do this, right? Or does it?

Any conservative will read this, and laugh it out of any serious discussion.

But then they will turn around and say cartels should be bombed.

You don't understand the way prohibition works in the slightest. Let me explain why.

Do you know why there are no cartels selling alcohol? Because it is legal and regulated.

Conservatives believe that drug use causes crime, when it is in fact prohibition that does.

Any consequences of improper behavior by individual users are by a great margin overshadowed by the consequences prohibition has for massive increases in organized crime. This is the same logic conservatives use to advocate for the legalization of guns, yet this logic fails them when it comes to substance use.

Cartels will kill people to push weed illegally to fight other illegal market competition or evade the law, but nobody in their right mind will kill anyone over weed in a legal market.

So where does the deep state factor in? Why does the deep state love prohibition?

The deep state rigged the system so that they could ban drugs, control foreign cartels, import the drugs into communities themselves (CIA, inner cities, crack, etc), then round people up for doing all the drugs that they banned and then imported themselves.

By turning what is a victimless problem that essentially only hurts the user ingesting it into a serious crime, this enabled them to systematically undermine the constitution in many ways. Such as:

UNDERMINING THE FIRST AMENDMENT: It destroyed free speech relating to pharmacology and medicinal research. Research into medicinal applications for many substances which are banned, or closely related enough to substances are banned to be covered by the analog act, cannot be properly researched. Scientists cannot properly conduct research or engage in free speech because they cannot even touch the things they are researching without extensive permitting. This includes research into things such as psychedelic-assisted therapy for alcoholism, which showed very promising results until the research was banned.

The deep state knows perfectly well psychedelic-assisted therapy for quitting extremely unhealthy toxic substance habits like alcoholism or other toxic drugs is the most effective way to combat serious drug abuse on a mental, emotional, and spiritual level, not just a physical brute-force level.

UNDERMINING THE SECOND AMENDMENT: It undermines the second amendment. The state will take away your right to own a gun if you're caught with a bag of weed? Absurd. Imagine if the state wanted to take away your right to own a gun for buying a case of beer? This way anyone who disagrees with the policies are systematically disarmed.

UNDERMINING THE FOURTH AMENDMENT: It completely undermines the right against unreasonable search and seizure. Once they ban something like weed, a substance which is comparatively about the same or less danger to alcohol, but which has a strong smell, now they can just say they smell weed at any time (which conveniently doesn't get captured on dash or bodycam), and have a good excuse to search through all your stuff, and you can't really say a whole lot about it. Then, if they want to get rid of you, maybe they can just, you know, "conveniently find" something that "appeared out of thin air" and bam, you're done.

UNDERMINING THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT: It's obviously cruel and unusual punishment to lock someone in a cage for ingesting a substance that hurts only themselves. Think about this from a basic psychology level. When they studied the effectiveness of substances on rats, if you have rats with cocaine laced water, rats in an enriching and fulfilling environment with lots of stimulation and things to do will treat it as a poison, and not ingest it. If they are in a bare, empty cage with no stimulation, it psychologically stresses them out and then instead of treating the cocaine-laced water like a poison they will consume it until it poisons them to death. Jailing someone for consuming an intoxicating substance re-creates the scenario that results in the rat effectively committing suicide.

We do all of this, while knowing perfectly well that the deep state has buried far superior remedies for serious addiction. This is why RFK Jr. vowed to end the various agency's hardline stance of criminalizing and refusing to allow medical research into things like psychedelics.

Why did the deep state do this? It should be obvious.

It gave them all kinds of mechanisms that they can use to execute the various items on their agendas such as:

• Systematically collapsing inner cities cities and driving out wealth by increasing violent crime and lawlessness.
• Systematically stripping people of their 2nd amendment rights.
• Systematically burying remedies that work to keep the population sick.
• Systematically breaking up families by putting the people in jail for victimless crimes like smoking a joint after work, using that as pretext to remove parents from the household so kids will either be raised by single moms, foster parents, state programs, day cares, etc. People end up married to the state either by being in a custodial relationship via the court system, or through support programs because the head of household was locked up and cant get a job now, etc.

This results in a new generation raised disconnected from the morals and worldview of their parents and with no respect for the law at a basic level - creating a necessary base of anarchists and nihilists to use as useful idiots for militant revolution.

The drug war has never been a war on drugs, it's been a war on you, disguised as a war on drugs. The deep state has systematically built up the cartels to help execute their agenda. Cleaning them up is likely a necessary short-term solution, but I really don't think it's a good long term one.

We came to our senses and realized why banning alcohol caused too many organized crime problems, likely only because the amount of public backlash and open rebellion was so great as alcohol was far more embedded into mass society than any other substance of choice. But there is no objective reason why alcohol is better than any other drug, especially something like cannabis. It only escaped prohibition because it was too popular to ban.

Throughout all of this, big pharma uses the prohibitionist framework in order to capture the market completely by forming a cozy relationship with government regulators.

This is why the Sackler family can produce Oxycontin, slide it through under regulator's noses while lying through their teeth that it's a safe alternative to morphine, and end up getting millions of people addicted to opiates, causing millions of deaths nationwide because of their rampant and irresponsible over-prescription of high power painkillers.

Why aren't we raiding the Sacklers as as a terrorist drug cartel enemy combatants?

Because people like them rigged the legal framework to do it all legally.

And they have you fooled into thinking cartels are the real problem.