Canadian Senator Nolin’s 2002 Report stated:

“We conclude from these observations that the international regime for the control of psychoactive substances, beyond any moral or even racist roots it may initially have had, is first and foremost a system that reflects the geopolitics of North-South relations in the 20th century. Indeed, the strictest controls were placed on organic substances – the coca bush, the poppy and the cannabis plant – which are often part of the ancestral traditions of the countries where these plants originate, whereas the North’s cultural products, tobacco and alcohol, were ignored and the synthetic substances produced by the North’s pharmaceutical industry were subject to regulation rather than prohibition.”

EVERYTHING ABOUT THE DRUG WARS
WAS LIES, BACKED UP BY VIOLENCE,
THAT BENEFIT THE BIGGEST LIARS.

What actually happened was deliberate! It is naive to believe that the war against some drugs (which was 75% against marijuana) was a “failure.” Our whole system is based on debt slavery, backed by wars based on deceits. Sine hemp is the single best plant on the planet for people, for food, fiber, fun and medicine, it made perfect sense to the banksters to criminalize cannabis on the basis that “marijuana is almost as bad as murder.”

The sheer insanity of such huge lies made those the best kind of propaganda. Our entire society has become 99% based on legalized lies, backed by legalized violence. Pot prohibition was merely the single simplest symbol and the most extreme particular example. However, the banksters were always behind that, because they benefit all the way around, from laundering the profits, to having more excuses to build a bigger fascist police state, which the banksters want to protect their fascist plutocracy.

Uruguay is adopting a neoprohibitionist form of “legalization,” which is still based on saying that “marijuana is bad, but not so bad” and therefore, it should not be so illegal, especially since turning it over to the black market creates opportunities for organized crime to make money, which is associated with murders, etc., which revolve around that black market money. However, it is silly and superficial to think that pot prohibition was ever intended to do anything else than cause those things to really happen.

What we “should” do is realize the degree to which the world we live in is a Bizarro Mirror World, where everything is backwards. It was BECAUSE hemp is the best plant for people that the bankster controlled politicians promoted the huge lies that “marijuana is almost as bad as murder” and enforced those lies to become self-fulfilling prophesies.

Good “legalization” should be based on the truth that hemp is good, not that it is not so bad, while prohibition backfires and makes things worse. Uruguay is not truly doing that, so far ... It takes profound changes in the general philosophy of science, and especially in political science, to understand that civilization is actually controlled by the people who are the best at being dishonest, and backing that up with violence. Cannabis was criminalized BECAUSE that benefits organized crime, since the biggest gangsters are the banksters, which were able to dominate the political processes, in order to legalize the lies which they wanted to be backed up by legalized violence.

Generally, people do not understand, and do not want to understand, that the murder system's death controls were the most important controls, which DO, and MUST, necessarily exist, BUT, currently are manifesting through the history of the maximum possible deceits. The history of civilization was the development of the War Kings, that made sovereign states, whose powers were covertly taken over by the Fraud Kings, the banksters, due to all the ways that they were able to dominate the funding of the political processes, through both legal and illegal means.

That is the overall context in which it was possible to criminalize cannabis on the basis of huge lies. Furthermore, that is WHY no genuine solutions can exist outside of the context of militarism, or the murder systems, which made and maintain the money systems, within which marijuana laws were developed. There is an almost infinite tunnel of deceits dominating everything our civilization is doing. Moreover, most of the opposition to that are reactionary revolutionaries, promoting the same old false fundamental dichotomies, and related impossible ideals, as the ruling classes did.

In order to understand marijuana laws, one must understand the overall money/murder systems. Without understanding that death controls are the central issues of political economy, inside of human ecology, then one cannot understand how and WHY hemp was rebranded as "marijuana which is almost as bad as murder."

Uruguay's changes are NOT based on more deeply understanding the REAL political problems, but only facing the superficially apparent facts that criminalizing cannabis has massively subsidized organized crime. Those who do not face the deeper social facts that human realities are ALWAYS organized lies, operating organized robberies (wherein the biggest gangsters are the banksters, that covertly controlled governments) FAIL to be able to go through enough paradigm shifting in political science to be able to propose better solutions to the chronic political problems.

The drug wars segued from slavery and racism. The economics of slavery systems were justified with racism. Marijuana laws are strongly isomorphic with racism, because melanin is similar to THC, in that they acted as sun screens for the human skin, and for the immature seeds of pot plants. Legalized industrial hemp is like "albino pot." Medical marijuana is like "black pot," which is deemed OK, when it comes wrapped in the white lab coat of  a medical doctor. All other forms of "marijuanas" are ranges of coloured pot, which are mostly still illeal everywhere in the world, since the United Nations was made and maintained by the same banksters, that deliberately maintain systems of social slavery, i.e., debt slavery, backed by wars based on deceits.

All of those trends were on exponential growth curves, so that the numbers of the debt slavery have become debt insanity. Similarly, the drug wars are manifesting runaway social insanities. However, the genuine solutions to these problems require that we develop better death control systems, not NO such systems. We need better dynamic equilibria between the different systems of organized lies, operating organized robberies.

Uruguay's proposed changes in their marijuana laws are relatively trivial steps in that direction. Of course, that is BETTER than continuing to go backwards, by enforcing legalized lies about cannabis with ever more criminal law enforcements, whose actual effects will continue to backfire more and more badly. However, no sufficient solutions to social problems can be developed which do not face and admit the facts that the death controls are central to the overall systems, and MUST BE.

The PROBLEM is that the history of warfare enabled those who were the best at deceits to prevail. Therefore, we gradually ended up with a civilization which was operated through the maximum possible deceits, within which context were the marijuana laws, based on HUGE LIES, that asserted the single best plant for people was "almost as bad as murder."

The SOLUTION should be a better murder system, because nothing else is sufficient. The beginning of that process requires that we stop accepting the basic LIES that "drugs are bad." That breakthrough is the only rational basis upon which to built better drug policies. Uruguay is NOT doing that, but only recognizing something which has been plainly obvious to social science for decades, namely that pot prohibition causes way worse problems than the pot does.

To "STOP THE DRUG WAR" should be approached through understanding WAR in general, in much deeper ways. That requires profound paradigm shifts in the philosophy of science (especially with respect to the concept of entropy) which then enables adequate paradigm shifting in political science. Of course, we are nowhere remotely close to doing that ... Rather we are still light years away, with "progress" being seen in that things in a few places finally have gotten so blatantly bad, that the policies which make them worse are being reconsidered and amended.

However, neoprohibitionist changes, from Colorado to Uruguay, are still operating within the same overall paradigms, and therefore, are still WRONG, in every way, other than that they marginally may stop things from continuing to get ever worse, at an exponential rate, as they have been doing, for decades.