The crack epidemic and by proxy the rise of street gangs was the MICs fault.

MIC wanted to fund overthrow of governments and couldn't do it through normal funding. They allowed groups to sell cocaine to American inner cities, particularly Los Angeles, then used that money to buy arms for revolutionaries. That is what Ollie North and the gang did time for.

Drugs are likely the most efficient means to fund "off book" projects ever known.

Why is everyone pretending like this is new or that they care about the common people's lives being destroyed by it?

The crack epidemic and by proxy the rise of street gangs was the MICs fault.

MIC wanted to fund overthrow of governments and couldn't do it through normal funding. They allowed groups to sell cocaine to American inner cities, particularly Los Angeles, then used that money to buy arms for revolutionaries. That is what Ollie North and the gang did time for.

Why is everyone pretending like this is new or that they care about the common people's lives being destroyed by it? Drugs are likely the most efficient means to fund "off book" projects ever known.