The Drug War is all about giving more power to government, more easdropping, more money to police, lawyers, judges, prisons, and the mafia.
The Drug War makes a very cheap commodity like weeds and flowers, very profitable, and gives incentives hook people onto its use, thus the new profession of "pusher" was invented as soon as drugs were made illegal, and profitable. There were no pushers at all in this country until the early 1900's.
The stupid people that still support the impossible drug war are being duped, ignorant, and cannot see that drug use has not lessened since it was made illegal, and they cannot understand why they have made no progress at all in 80 years.
The Drug war people are unfortunately never held accountable for all of the taxpayers money they have wasted over the years with absolutely not one single example of success. I only wish that those that support the War on Drugs were made to pay for it, and leave the rest of us alone, reimburse us for the taxes we already paid for it, and finance it on your own.
There is no light at the end of the Drug War tunnel.
After saying I agree completely, I went back and re-read your post. I do have to disagree with the last statement. In 1931 only two years before Prohibition was ended. President Hoover said we could never go back. Many high level politicians were clamoring to "get tough" on those who disobey the law. Little did they know how soon the sea change was to take place.
In only the last few years, Switzerland, Australia, Spain, Germany, Italy, England, Belgium, Portugal, Jamaica and others have made real changes in their laws to reduce the harm that drugs can cause. These changes have all been in the direction of legalization. Strangely enough, America, so often referred to as the bastion of freedom, seems to be among the last to wake up to the simple fact: Freedom works, oppression doesn't.
We can take heart that due to the initiative process, the American people are sending the message to the politicians that we don't like criminalizing non-violent people who want to use marijuana responsibly.
Take heart, we will win eventually, because we have morality on our side.