Originally Posted by Pornwolf

The war against drugs is a business in itself. Those billions of jobs are employing a lot of government and outside workers. If you stop it or figure out a better way you'd have to fire them all. That will never happen. It's too entrenched in the fabric of the government to be stopped. Also, a lot of those same DEA workers are responsible for the flow of drugs in and out of the country and local checks and balances. Fire them and you have a problem that would make some parts of the country look like the wild west.

A President would be killed if he tried to get in the way.

On another note, I see a serious heroin problem coming over the next 20 years as more and more kids look for the hard stuff.