War on drugs' biggest casualty is the innocent

From: The Topeka Capital-Journal | Date: January 4, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Twenty years ago, my worry was the corrupting influence of drug trafficking --- not just on the poor dumb addicts but on local sheriff's deputies paid to be somewhere else when the big drop was made, on small-time politicians and judges and, eventually, I feared, on large and small governments.

The big-time drug operators had so much money to throw around that more and more people were being drawn, however reluctantly, into their conspiracy.

I still worry. But it's the corrupting influence of the war on drugs that worries me now. I've just seen what you may have seen a year ago when PBS first ...

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