The Drug-Abuse Industrial Complex
April, 1982
In the early Seventies, the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse undertook the most comprehensive research survey of marijuana ever attempted. The commission ultimately found that, in the words of one of its members, "what we have done in this country is create a Drug-Abuse Industrial Complex, a new growth industry that spends more than a billion dollars a year and does not have eradication of the drug problem or even lessening it as its primary goal."Its primary goal is sel...
