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Who is in charge? Those with enough money to sway the argument their way, and I don't mean through information and facts. Here is where there is truely no difference between the Dems and the Republicans. If it takes millions of dollars to be re-elected or elected and you can get contributions in the thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars if you will only agree to vote to keep something illegal, why shouldn't you do it? If you say, "Because it isn't right" or "because it makes sense to change the policy", you flaunt your ignorance of human nature. Look at DEA's budget. Look at how many jails the contractors are building, look at how much money is made by those in the system who sell supplies and industry related merchendise to those who build and run the jails that are overflowing with people who are there because of the criminalization of what should be viewed as a social/medical problem. It has nothing to do with the most reasonable and efficient way to deal with this issue. It has everything to do with how the money related to this issue flows. And each party is as guilty of slopping at the trough as the other.