I have to agree. Police powers are getting out of control and the war on drugs have siphoned off billions of hard earned tax dollars...to where? for what? Has it made a positive impact? No, no and no.
Millions of our tax dollars go to foreign governments...then into the pockets of crooked officials. There's gotta be a better way.
Before I catch flak as well...I’d like to point out, there is a HUGE difference in legalization, decriminalization, and or restructuring penal codes.
Legalization is absolutely not the answer. Legalize drugs and people get really really stupid...look at the debacle in CO. for example.
What you aren't grasping is that this spending has nothing explicitly to do with the war on drugs, it is all about funneling money towards increasing the power and control of their political allies.
I.E. political kickbacks. Everything in government is costing far more than it should. Everything is bloated, not just Law enforcement and the drug interdiction efforts.
For the people in Washington, it's a feature, not a bug.