It isn’t a “war”, it’s a failing holding action.
The drug czars will always be one step ahead because they have the budget and lack of red tape to implement new strategies, tactics, and technologies faster than law enforcement does.
As Dinsdale said, people on both sides of the ‘war’ are benefiting, so there’s no reason at all to stop it.
Firstly as long as addictive drugs are illegal, they are highly profitable to all involved (no competition).
It’s far more profitable to grow illegal drugs than other crops.
If a foreign Government accepts US Government money to ‘stop’ the drugs and accepts bribes to allow drug crops, they’re on a nice little earner. Yes, children, the US Government is funding both sides of the war. :rolleyes:
If drugs are confiscated, the price goes up, so pushers still make money.
Having access to illegal drugs can be used in all sorts of ways (bribing users, gaining influence amongs gangs or criminals.
But of the course the main reason why the war on drugs will continue forever is that the **scum of the earth ** do well out of it.
No, not the pushers! 
I mean **US politicians ** :smack: , who can ludicrously claim:
- they are ‘doing something’ about the drug menace
- they are ‘protecting our kids’ from drugs
- they are ‘saving society’ from drugs
- they are ‘taking action’ against drugs
- they are ‘standing up for what is right’
- they will ‘never surrender’ in the fight against evil
And of course they get to sit on powerful committees with massive budgets and get paid to make trips abroad and get their faces in front of the cameras.
Fortunately no results are ever required and there are great headlines like ‘drugs seized!’
Bstrds.
Just to add one more - the prison industry.
Prisons are seen as job creators, and source for community renewal.
And various aspects of incarceration are being privatized.
We gotta throw drug dealers and users in jail - it’s too damned profitable.
Ha! But you get bonus points for both wars when you link them - can you say “Afghanistan poppies”?
The war on drugs is the same kind of war that we are finding ourselves with terrorism, it is perpetual and never-ending. The 2 are very much connected, by the way, with our society use of heroin (mainly from Afghanistan).