Couldn't agree more, daylia. What we have here is a privileged wealthy elite, busily engaged for the last many centuries in addicting people to tremedously pernicious drugs (alcohol and tobacco) for enormous profit, while demonizing and marginaling those people and substances which stood outside the controlling financial circles of power of the ruling clique.

And that's about all there is to it. Gross hypocrisy and profit-taking, masquerading as morality.

Just like the scribes and pharisees in the New Testament. Gross hypocrisy and profit-taking, masquerading as godliness and morality.

Not much has changed.

The modern police, mostly unwittingly, serve this beast, just as the Roman guards served it 2,000 years ago. And for what? For money and power...but mainly for money.

I suggest the one thing that they will never do: legalize marijuana in a way which doesn't make money for any established special interest group but provides it to ordinary people for free...by the sweat of their own hands. That is the one great SACRILEGE in this society of bought-out liars and dupes...that anything should be freely available. If they could control all the air, we would have to pay them even to breathe.