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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.

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

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?

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

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

Did we have one post-Prohibition?

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..