Public Enemy explode the bull-shit hypocrisy of the USA’s phoney war on drugs decades before it became fashionable. Essential viewing.

Public Enemy explode the bull-shit hypocrisy of the USA’s phoney war on drugs decades before it became fashionable. Essential viewing.
The main problem with prohibiting drugs is that it immediately criminalize the millions of citizens who, in most cases harmlessly, use them. Also, society loses the £5 billion in revenue available through their taxation. Worse of all though, we hand this massive global trade to the black market. This hands vast wealth to criminal gangs, who are then empowered to commit far worse crimes such as arms smuggling and human trafficking.