And how do you propose we win the war on drugs? Your experience seems to be another example that I am right that the current WOD is unacceptable.
Per Thomas Jefferson: "Government should never pass a law it is unable or unwilling to enforce."
Secure the borders, period. No tolerance. Use the military if needed. Shoot down or sink any craft entering America without authorization and identification, and that is unwilling to submit to search.
Decriminalize marijuana: No current marijuana importers could compete with Safeway, etc. and it's local American citizen growers. It would be hasta luego to latino drug businesses and all the crime and illegal immigration conflict they create. We could reap huge taxes, reduce border pressure, redirect law enforcement to other crimes, enrich American farmers, entice alcohol drinkers and sometime drivers to a safer and healthier alternative.
Anybody that wants to smoke weed now is doing it, there would be no increase in users and we could end weed's stupid anti-authority social mystique and, I believe, reduce the users.
Declare the cultivation of poppies and cocaine as a hostile and aggressive act against America and declare a real shootin' war if needed to stop it. There would be no political question of that war's direct benefit to America.
Declare drug and alcohol abuse as primarily a health problem. Create a lot more drug courts that offer treatment diversion, criminal process deferment, and family reconciliation.
Family is the only thing powerful enough to overcome the lure of hard drugs and alcohol. All treatment should be family/loved-one based. Methadone needs to be phased out in favor of Suboxone.
Third offense DWI in ten years, in any state, you go to jail for a year, no good time.
Doctors convicted of over or improper prescriptions, lose their license, at least temporarily.
Bottom line: border interdiction, destroy the economic incentives and don't declare war on your own people.