Actually, It's the Police and Prison Trade Unions...

....that realized the need to keep the deception started by Anslinger long ago. The Fraternal Order of Police is a trade union started many decades ago to protect their interest. It was in place when the Temperance Movement criminalized alcohol users. Even if the cops of the day were indifferent to Prohibition, the Union was well aware of the spiking crime-rate, and more importantly, the HUGE spike in crime-fighting budgets that Congress down to local mayors now had to pull out of their budgets for it. It was a Mardi Gras the likes of which law-enforcement unions would never have dreamed possible. Meanwhile, Anslinger was building on the mood created by the Temperance Movement to demonize other drugs. He succeeded to a level which sane, educated people would also have never thought possible. But the repeal of Prohibition had the police unions nervously watching as the crime rate spiraled downward as fast as it had climbed. The statistical spike created is one that the FOP (police union) *never* mentions due the logical inference the public would draw from it were it known about today. The rise and drop in gang activity created by the black-market in alcohol made the FOP realize how imperative it was that Drug Prohibition stayed in place. This was done by simply saying they had witnessed the lies that Anslinger told while misdirecting the public over the cause of violence if any drugs were in sight. So my point here is to point out what happens when a trade union - and the industry it works for - are in bed together. You know the public is the one that is going to get screwed! cont....