35 years of drug war failure

So, how's its track record after 35 years of difficult, often dangerous drug-war-making? If the DEA were a heroin addict, it would have overdosed on its own incompetence by age 6.

Despite its failures and the harm it's done to American society, however, the DEA has done more than merely survive. It's become a typically bloated, self-preserving federal bureaucracy whose power, budget and continuing existence bear no relation to its performance

The "War on Drugs" - designed to protect us from ourselves - has made drug dealers wealthy and emboldened many otherwise honest citizens to get in on the action. It has not made a dent in the amount of drugs consumed; it has just made them more lucrative for the dealers.