Especially in a Welfare State.
Fact is, the driving forces behind socialism have been drug-runners from the start. The same folks who ordered the gunboats to seize the port facilities of China in defiance of the Chinese governments edict to prohibit the importation of opium by the British. So, in truth, while everything under Orwellian principles must be called exactly what it isn't, the whole "War on Drugs" has never been anything but a protection racket for the globalist drug cartels.
Nothing can be more lucrative than having the government subsidizing the cartelists' markets. Nowadays it's not just the opiates or the meth or the marijuana. . . . Walmart has welfare-financed customers, as do the Mickey D's. And every other department of our very cartelist corporate "economy". Our government is out supplying Al Qaida rebels and other CIA asset organizations all over the world, creating the need for more military spending. But the biggest coup ever for this sort of "single-payer" economy is Obamacare.
Today's resurgent housing "market" is in fact being buoyed up by the Federal Reserve itself buying and holding real estate. . . homes. . . .with fiat currency far above the requirements of our government's largess.
Bubble warning.