Whats behind U.S. war on drugs?
By Andy McInerney What do working people have to gain from a “war on drugs?” This question is becoming more important every day. There is growing evidence that the so-called “war on drugs,” waged under various guises by every president since Ronald Reagan, will affect more and more lives in the coming months. Politicians use it to justify more money for prisons. The Pentagon uses it to justify their interventions, especially against the struggling people of Colombia. Hollywood glamorizes the war in its glaringly racist way, portraying cops and Rambo-type soldiers facing off against drug kingpins–inevitably Latino or Black. Make no mistake: the drug policy enacted by Reagan and carried out by Bush, Clinton and now handed to Bush Jr. is a real war. There are victims and there are casualties. The problem for workers and other oppressed people is that the ones who are supposed to benefit from drug-free streets are the targets and the victims. Take the domestic drug war. The main target of
