I think the war on drugs has become an industry, in and of itself. It's a huge bureacracy whose primary goals are expansion and self-preservation. It's also a dismal failure. It's about as effective as the prohibition on alcohol was, and has the same effect on organized crime as the prohibition on alcohol did...it creates a huge illegal market for the illegal product, and makes the criminals tremendously rich and powerful. There's gotta be a better way. I don't know what it is...I just know what it's not!
