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		megaman22 on Dec 17, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Norway votes to decriminalise drugs and offer trea... Seriously, without prohibition in the first place, so much of the police/industrial complex never would have come into existence.

eecc on Dec 17, 2017 [–]

You’re conflating. It’s “military/industrial complex” as Eisenhower called it. You’re probably referring to the “prison industrial complex”, the influential lobby of private prisons.

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