There has never been a “Drug War”. If there had been, the borders would have been closed and the supply coming in reduced to the point where street drugs would have increaed exponentially in cost to the point that use would be insignificant.
Only a pothead would be incapable of recognizing this.
That said, the usual dictatorial class of government beurocrats have used drug laws as an excuse to form quasi military units to storm into the homes of the citizenry, but you relly have to have zero knowledge of human history to claim they would not have simply used a different strawman to accomplish this had they not used drug laws.
Come to think of it, they did. The circumvention of the courts through gamewardens precedes usurpations through drug laws.
If the little stoners here can prove that hadn’t really happened and it all started with drug laws, I will quit ridiculing them as much.
Why not just say that if there was a drug war that the guys in power could just close their eyes and wish all the drugs would just go away. That's about as plausible as the simplistic scenario you just listed there. closing the borders would not make much of a dent in the supply. You do realize we have thousands of miles of border and coastline in this country, right? Have you ever looked at a map in your life before?