The War on Drugs exists to provide middle class jobs to armies of government bureaucrats who vote Democrat and belong to unions that money launder funds directly into the pockets of legislators. The War on Drugs also exists so the corrupt politicians can hand out favors to those in the highest levels of organized crime.
“The Godfather” was true.
The reason I don’t believe there were all those maladies in the 19th and early 20th century is because of the societal institutions from family to churches to community, which were strong. Today’s society is far different, constituted of vastly larger percentages of feral, amoral, deviant scum, cultivated by a combination of massive government dependence and a grotesquely vile culture.
There was or is a war on drugs because kids are getting tainted and becoming far more useless adults due to drugs.
I can see those with cancer of dying of something using it, but the recreational users and big losers and eventually IMO problematic for the whole country.