[bluepanda928752]

I hope one day we will have a Nuremberg-style trial for all those friendly chaps who orchestrated (and profited from) this pointless life-destruction machine called war on drugs

[heavyset_go]

I know of a police chief who just retired with a $250k/year pension whose primary contribution to the community was arresting high school kids for smoking joints.

[paxys]

We just had one for Purdue Pharma. Spoiler alert: absolutely nothing happened to these friendly chaps.

[aerostable_slug]

How does that address those who voted for many of those men and women, knowing their policies and completely agreeing with them?

I am acquainted with people who firmly believe the Devil's Plant is terrible and shouldn't be legal anywhere — what then?

[bluepanda928752]

I suppose we can extend the German analogy here as well, e.g. not trying to put half a country on trial might be the most reasonable option

[belatw]

Nixon, Reagan including Nancy Bush Sr. the original instigators of the federal on drugs are all dead.

[kstrauser]

Did we have one post-Prohibition?

[bluepanda928752]

If we don't either in this case, there's always a second option of doing the same thing Israel did to those who decided not to face a trial and ran away..