Open Veils · Answer
Is cocaine illegal on purpose?
According to Whitney Webb, Gary Webb, and Peter Dale Scott, cocaine prohibition was engineered — and selectively enforced — to serve intelligence community black budgets and geopolitical control rather than public health. The Harrison Narcotics Act (1914) and subsequent prohibitions coincided precisely with the period when Anglo-American financial interests needed leverage over South American politics and labor. The scheduling system, as Catherine Austin Fitts has argued, functions as a price-support mechanism for an off-books economy worth hundreds of billions annually — one that flows through the same banking infrastructure prohibition supposedly opposes.
Evidence
- Webb paid for this reporting with his career and, in 2004, his life under disputed circumstances.
- Scott identifies recurring institutional nodes — certain CIA proprietary airlines, specific Miami banking networks — across multiple decades.