Dank Stinking Tunnels

I am honored to have Wretchard T. Cat provide the title for today's post. From something he wrote on why Gaza wastes money on war instead of helping its people.

For as long as you spend the marginal dollar on those dank stinking tunnels instead of developing human capital, building and making money you are going to lose and keep losing. Hatred blinds us to this fact.

Which got me to thinking about the marginal dollars America spends on the Drug War. So I wrote a series of replies which I'm turning into a post.

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Explain to me why the US spends over $100 bn a year to ignore Receptor Science (drugs fill receptors). Talk about dank dark stinkin tunnels.

The Sociology opposes it.

Dr. Lonny Shavelson in his book "Hooked" said that 70% of female heroin addicts had been sexually abused in childhood.

The Science opposes it.

Addiction is a symptom of PTSD says Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine Eric Kandel in his book, "The Disordered Mind."

The Science doubly opposes it.

Receptor Science (drugs fill receptors)

https://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2025/08/receptor-science.html

And yet we persist.

And to top it off there is politics.

Alcohol Prohibition supported Alcohol Gangs. Our Great President supports Drug Prohibition. Nobel Winner Economist Milton Friedman called Drug Prohibition, "Socialism for Criminals."

Maintaining Socialism for Criminals costs well North of $100bn a year for a country "desperately" looking for budget relief.

Trump was at one time rational on the subject. Trump said at a Miami Herald 1990 Awards luncheon "Legalize". I'm with him. Where did he go, anyway? Maybe he forgot. Or someone explained to him how profitable it was denying people in pain, relief.










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