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> And prohibiting drugs is one way of trying to do that.

The war on drugs had tried and failed for decades. All it's done is enrich the cartels, fill prisons with minorities, create an oxycodone epidemic, flood the streets with cheap and deadly fentanyl, and countless other problems.

While the same government "protecting" citizens from harm is corrupt the point of the CIA becomeing drug traffickers on the side [1], making the problem even worse like throwing petrol on a fire.

[1] https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/big-whit...

Prohibition has nothing to do with prevention.