[rabscuttle385]

Think of the unintended consequences and the law of third order effects and maybe you’ll realize the war on drugs IS the lowest cost option.

There already are lots of cops going after folks and lots of lawyers, largely because of the "war" on drugs.

Your argument is a strawman.

[hoosierham]

Correction:there are tens of thousands of cops , lawyers , and drug dealers whose incomes depend on drugs being illegal.

And in the case of the poverty programs there is a huge number of bureaucrats,lawyers,poverty pimps ,and their clients who all depend on the governments continuing to forcibly confiscate the wealth of the productive members of society.

Prohibition of alcohol was a failure that the people and government eventually recognized and mostly repealed.It is long past time the same was done for the War on Drugs AND the War on Poverty.Truthfully all these are more about government controlling people than government helping people.