Because drugs are bayad, mmmmmmkay?
So true, the whole WOD has become a means of facilitating transfer payments to a burgeoning cottage industry.
The money is only part of the problem. The other part of the problem is that the WOD gives power to the authoritarian class in our society - a group of people (probably the first in the list) who are ready, willing, and able to circumvent or downright trample the Constitution to pursue their unrealistic ideals of a safe and secure society - 40 to 50 billion dollars per year, and no means of accurately measuring the effort.
What a joke. Why do so many conservatives buy into the WOD paradigm?
Just because the USSC says its ok for LEOs to use draconian measures (i.e., search and siezure, no-knock raids, dogs at road blocks, etc.) does not mean these tactics are within either the letter or spirit of the Constitution.
The WOD is an anathema to the Constitution.
They don't. Free Republic is a microcosm of the American conservative movement, and support for the Federal Drug War is abysmally low around here. I'd estimate that only 15-20% of FReepers support it.