How about the agony inflicted on a lot of innocent people by the war on drugs, by SWAT teams busting down doors, by the carnage on our streets in turf wars, by the killing of good police officers in shootouts with dealers, by the corruption of once good police officers and civil servants here and in Mexico, by the fact that young black kids are sucked out of school and into the streets by the profits that can be made selling drugs, and by the sight of U.S. helicopters flying around Colombia trying to suppress guerrillas supported by the illegal profits the war creates.

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