Our Corporate Rulers and their Bankrupt Drug War http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/david-p-hamilton-our-corporate-rulers.html

The war on drugs is an important means of social control. It gives the state a reason to employ many more agents of social control -- police, border patrol, prison guards, and the related bureaucrats. It gives these agents a justification for interfering in people's lives. It allows the state to incarcerate and disenfranchise millions of those who have, by violating drug laws, shown disrespect for the state's authority.