The war on drugs is not working.
Oh yes, it is. It is doing EXACTLY what it was designed to do: grow .gov; create an underclass of "subjects"; and, enrich vested interests.
Every year the arrests and convictions for drug offenses and related offenses are used to justify more .gov spending on .gov programs aimed to "combat illegal drugs". That's BS; those programs exist only to enlarge .gov and give it more authority over the lives of the people. If they wanted to "combat illegal drugs", declare war on the Cartels, spray the fields growing this schit with herbicides, and kill the Cartelistas. That doesn't happen.
What does happen is further criminalization of possession or use, with ever increasing penalties, leading to increased convictions and those convicted now stripped of their rights. This creates a perpetual underclass that just feeds into the "catch and release" .gov programs to justify additional spending (positive feedback loop). This underclass is easily demonized as "criminals" and "druggies", and will never be allowed a full suite of rights again (so, forget about them ever being a true threat to .gov). Of course, the elite and their children are exempt from this system (witness Joe Biden's son, or JFK, Jr., or the myriad Hollyweird types that go in and out of rehab, but never get convicted even when caught).
Of course, then you have the vested interests making money at every turn. Why convict or plea Mexican teens in an adult prison? Because those prisons are privately run by for-profit corporations with very influential investors, and they have a contractual agreement with the states and feds for a minimum "occupancy rate"; i.e., the .gov has to keep at least a minimum number of people incarcerated by contract with these companies in order to guarantee their profits or pay a penalty. Add in all those companies that build those prisons, and that supply the materials to the every increasing .gov "war on drugs" presence (gear, guns, cars, trucks, helos, high tech stuff, training, etc.). All of those companies have investors and need to return a profit every quarter, and every one of them is located in some politicians district (jobs mean votes, and being "tough on crime/drugs" is a easy sell). Then, of course, there is the black market investing. If folks don't think there is serious U.S. and .gov money tied up in the Cartels and getting kickbacks from their business (otherwise known as a dividend, or profit sharing), they are delusional.
So, no, the "war on drugs" is working. It's doing exactly what it was designed to do all along. We just as a people haven't seen through the BS cover of "why" it exists to get to the truth of the matter. Yet.
