You’re preaching to the choir.
The most ridiculous aspect is, it would be one thing if any of these efforts have helped, and it looked like we were stopping it, or even slowing it down. But it isn’t even having an effect. We’ve deployed more money than our nation can afford (and we’ll probably collapse at some point because of it), to launch the most sophisticated operations any nation ever could, for decades, and nothing has changed. You can still buy whatever you want, dirt cheap, on almost any street corner in some neighborhoods - and it is clear you always will be able to.
Indeed, things are getting worse. More Heroin, more meth, all cheaper than ever, and we have articles where the LE fighting the war actually say, “We’re all just waiting for it to get really bad now. We think that will begin any day. We’re actually surprised it hasn’t started already. We sit around looking at each other saying, it doesn’t make sense, why isn’t it happening?”
All this money, all the dangers to our liberty, all the intrusiveness, a collapsed state even (though admittedly, that has a lot of over-spending causes) all to “save” people who are screwing us with their own selfishness, and nothing even changes. What is the point again?
It's interesting to ponder the hypothesis that from the government's perspective the War on Drugs is going exactly as planned. But how anyone who doesn't directly benefit in power or money from the War on Drugs can still be supporting it is an abiding mystery.