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→Iran-Contra vs the War on Drugs
==Iran-Contra vs the War on Drugs==
==Iran-Contra vs the War on Drugs==
The most controversial factor exposed in Iran/Contra is the inherrent contradiction in US policy of allegedy fighting to control the import of illegal narcotics into the United States, while at the same time elements within the US government secretly sought, and some claim continue, to profit or gain from controlling the supply of illegal narcotics brought into the United States. The public debate on drug legalization in the United States is now more than 35 years old. With the creation of the DEA and the War on Drugs in 1974 some thought interdiction and enforcement of distribution and possession violations was the solution. However, law enforcement at all levels, from federal to local, has always maintained 90% still got through to the end users. Some cited the failure of [[Prohibition]] in the 1920s as evidence of the fruitlessness interdiction and enforcement.
The most controversial factor exposed in Iran/Contra is the inherrent contradiction in US policy of allegedy fighting to control the import of illegal narcotics into the United States, while at the same time elements within the US government secretly sought, and some claim continue, to profit or gain from controlling the supply of illegal narcotics brought into the United States. The public debate on drug legalization in the United States is now more than 35 years old. With the creation of the DEA and the War on Drugs in 1974 some thought interdiction and enforcement of distribution and possession violations was the solution. However, law enforcement at all levels, from federal to local, has always maintained 90% still got through to the end users. Some cited the failure of [[Prohibition]] in the 1920s as evidence of the fruitlessness of interdiction and enforcement.
Barring a national consensus, beginning with the National Conference of State Legislators up to the federal government, legalization is unlikely, and the War on Drugs will remain official policy, despite wide recognition of it as a failure. The flipside of keeping narcotics illegal however, the argument from experience goes, only gangsters and criminals get rich. Similiar to lotteries, which at one time were run by organized crime and known as "numbers rackets," now state governments control them and reap the profits.
Barring a national consensus, beginning with the National Conference of State Legislators up to the federal government, legalization is unlikely, and the War on Drugs will remain official policy, despite wide recognition of it as a failure. The flipside of keeping narcotics illegal however, the argument from experience goes, only gangsters and criminals get rich. Similiar to lotteries, which at one time were run by organized crime and known as "numbers rackets," now state governments control them and reap the profits.