High Witness Report

Amidst the virtual stampede of Right-Wing BushCo shit heads America has been forced to endure for the last seven+ years, one particularly humorous goofball tends to get lost in the shuffle.

The Two of Clubs in the Neocon deck, Drug Czar John P. Walters…

US Drug Czar, John P Walters, is quickly gaining on Pinocchio and President Bush in the nose-length-due-to-lying category.

With Marijuana vending machines and trade schools for growers popping up out West, I’d say the ONDCP (Office of National Drug Control Policy) is getting a little nervous these days. The juggernaut that is Medical Marijuana is blowing through this country like a big, green tornado and there is no stopping it. Heroin, Meth, Pills and Cocaine are everywhere. The Drug War has been lost.
Naturally, the Federal Government, instead of embracing the inevitable, has once again chosen a path of misinformation, propaganda and outright lies in order to justify their existence.

Czar (lol) Walters, the Bush Regime Minister of Drug Paranoia, recently was caught in a couple of doozies….

Walters is the moron on your right.

The drug task force branch of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police recently debunked the ONDCP assertion that some sort of “Extreme Ecstasy” was finding it’s way across the Canadian border into the US.
Walters, no stranger to utterances of the unsubstantiated, employed the media to embark upon yet another False Drug Alarm in a effort to remain relevant.

“This extreme ecstasy is a disturbing development in what has been one of the most significant international achievements against the illicit drug trade,” Walters said.

However,

Supt. Paul Nadeau of the RCMP made the following statement…

“I shook my head when I read the release that they put out,” said Nadeau, who’s never heard of extreme ecstasy.

“That term is unknown to us, certainly in Canada, and I can tell you that I’ve spoken to law enforcement people in the U.S. and they’ve never heard of it either so it would appear that it’s a term that somebody came up with in a boardroom in Washington, D.C.”

When losing a Drug War, sometimes one must at least provide the illusion that they’re winning in order to justify the 19 Billion Dollar per year budget and their jobs.
Thus the false Ecstasy scare.

In yet another scandalous display, Walters attempted to establish that the rise in Cocaine prices in the nation was evidence that production was down….

“as a result of reduced supply, street cocaine prices over the first nine months of the year rose to an average $136.93 per pure gram at the end of September, a 44% increase from January” Walters said.

Bill Piper, director of national affairs for the Drug Policy Alliance said it best…

“Assuming that high cocaine prices are hurting cartels is like assuming high gasoline prices are hurting oil companies,”

Fact is, there’s a very distinct reason Cocaine prices are higher (no pun intended). You can’t carry 2000lbs of blow on horseback or pack mule.
It takes GASOLINE to power the trucks, planes, cars etc that move the druggage around.
Higher gas prices mean higher prices at the grocery store, the restaurants, the everywhere.
Higher prices for drugs too.

So, no. Mr. Czar. You are not winning anything. Bush era gas prices have just made it a little more expensive to move drugs across the country. That’s why a gram of Cocaine costs 100.00 in California and 175.00 in New York. It takes more gas to get to New York, Socrates.

He also said something about Marijuana Growers being terrorists, but some lies are so intellectually void that they just aren’t worthy of comment except to say that if Drugs were legal there would be no underground, unaccounted for money.
So let’s just say that drug laws support terrorists instead.

The Drug War, as it is, is an abject failure. People go to jail, people get out of jail, drugs are everywhere, people die over the money involved, people are killed by police at wrong addresses,
Billions of dollars are being spent each year and I can get any drug I want withing six blocks of my home. In a middle class neighborhood in a conservative city.

But John Walters is winning! He needs another Billion or three of our tax dollars!!

The only thing that changes is the excuses, and then only to make the words rhyme.