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End Drug Prohibition 

By Kevin Barrett 

The first step in drug reform, as my old bumpersticker put it, is: DARE to Get the CIA Off Drugs! The CIA and its allies run most of the world’s illegal drug trade. That’s why drugs are illegal—to keep the enormous profits in the hands of the CIA covert ops boys and the finance oligarchs they work for.  

If you don’t believe me, please read chapter 3 of Mike Ruppert’s Crossing the Rubicon. Or start with this interview. 

The illegal drug trade brings in about 600 or 700 billion dollars in cash every year—maybe more, since the IMF’s estimate for money laundering in 2001 was 1.5 trillion dollars. All of that cash has to get laundered somewhere. But there’s too much of it to launder anywhere but through huge corporations. So the CIA, which is the gangster army of the Wall Street financiers, controls the drug trade and launders the money through America’s largest banks and corporations.  

Insiders leverage the drug money to make even more profits than the above figures would suggest. How? They buy, say, General Dynamics stock, and then launder billions in drug money through General Dynamics. The dirty money shows up as earnings. Wow! General Dynamics is having a great year! Its stock prices soar. Then the insiders sell their stocks, invest in Bank of America, start laundering money through Bank of America. And so the shell game continues year after year, generating trillions of dollars in profits for the corrupt scoundrels of the Wall Street CIA mafia. 

When the Taliban shut down most of the world’s heroin production by eliminating the Afghan opium crop, the CIA-Wall Street gangsters responded by invading Afghanistan in 2001. By destroying the heroin industry in 2000, the Taliban had committed what Ruppert describes as the greatest act of economic warfare in history. Restoring the heroin business—not looking for Osama Bin Laden—was the real purpose of the invasion of Afghanistan. And the heroin business has indeed been restored. Last year, it was bigger than ever. 

The way to destroy this circle of corruption is simple: legalize and regulate drugs—and abolish the CIA, as JFK tried to do right before they killed him.

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