depends upon your idea of victory...
have we stemmed the flow of and use of illegal drugs...NO..
have we given up our liberties, 4th amendment rights and slowly turned our country into a police state... YES
Whoa! Great Minds, and only 8 seconds apart....
You left out the fact that it has created a money tree for the legal racket. Attorneys on both sides, courts, judges, staffs, forensics techs, jailors, bailiffs, bail bondsmen etc. etc. etc.
That would have happened anyway, if drugs had never even existed. That's because crimefighting is only the mcguffin, the pretextual concept, and population control is the whole candle for anti-civil-liberties types.