We never learn from history. The Prohibitionists didn’t forsee they would be financing the creation organized crime in America. Today’s war on drugs is simply a way to enrich for-profit prisons that actively lobby for the right to take over government contracts and then provide substandard treatment of prisoners supervised by poorly trained, low wage, non-union guards.
As evidenced by how much money the nation’s largest private prison operator contributed to his campaign, LePage wasn’t stupid. He knew exactly what he wanted to do.
