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War in Pakistan -Waziristan Coming Soon to a Market Near America.
The consequences of marijuana may resemble American Alcohol Prohibition from 1920 to 1933.
Prohibition increased budgets and powers for law enforcement and the IRS. Prohibition fined and jailed small-time dealers. Prohibition created The Untouchables, with vast criminal enterprise family fortunes and privileged politics plus a Bull Market in law-breaking speakeasies.
The beginning of the end of Prohibition was marked by the 1929 Crash and a 69% dollar devaluation, with government regulation of licenses and taxes, which worked for the mafia monopoly that took over government.
According to the Phoenix New Times, John McCain’s late father-in-law, who held the Arizona Budweiser distributorship monopoly, was a connected convicted felon with suspended sentence who was successfully defended from a second felony conviction by a future Supreme Court Justice who died of cancer in office:
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/content/printVersion/167059
The Thirties and Forties were marked by occasional respites from real long-term declines in economy, incomes, real estate, savings, stocks and trade that led to World War II.
Today the legalization of Marijuana, along with Cocaine and Heroin once legal, may open the door to decriminalizing, monopolizing and taxing pot consumers after the US Dollar and Dow fell 84% in terms of gold since the Jubilee Year 2000 began.
We shall know in the fullness of time if, like Hoover, FDR, Truman and Japan, we face two or more lost decades to work off government red tape and debts choking off the economy with usury, the third largest US Budget item after Transfer Payments and Military.
Reagan, incidentally, was the only President who reduced the red tape regulation pages of the Federal Register, although he did increase the public debt.
Re the political economy of Pakistan, some speculated Benazir Bhutto was a covert false flag Al Qaeda hit by a military dictatorship.
An accomplished Oxford Union Debater, President of OU and Pakistan Prime Minister at 35, she was removed from office by the President for alleged corruption, re-elected and removed by another President on similar charges. She went into exile and returned to Pakistan to run for Prime Minister a third time.
