i was with you up until the very end. there is a reason - this is a backdoor to slavery, like the jim crow laws were before them. that is the correct, longterm historical view of the drug war: the drug war is the current way that we capture blacks and convert them back into slaves.

the drug war needs to end and everything. but, the actual issue here is related to the 13th amendment. and, until the country is able to pass a real abolition amendment that abolishes all slavery, you will continue to see these kinds of laws assert themselves.

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

that's why jim crow laws were possible. it's why the drug war exists. and, you're a fool to think it was an accident of language.

that amendment needs to be amended, or the horrors will continue.

it's an easy fix, in principle: .

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

i've never even heard anybody else even suggest it.

i suppose that such is the power of the myth of lincoln.