Some third world countries count narco-dollars as a significant fraction of their gross national product. While the drug war destroys countless lives among the working and peasant classes, the privileged elite grows wealthy beyond imagining. There is a strong economic incentive to keep the war going ad infinitem. While our elected officials pay lip service to 'a drug free America', the CIA is routinely involved with massive international drug-trafficking to finance its covert operations. It has become insanely easy to prove conspiracy based on mere association and bartered for hearsay.
Drugs are everywhere, from the inner city ghettos to the gated estates of the privileged classes.
One mistake, one moment of unfortunate coincidence, and your loved ones will be gone, locked up for ten years to life. This madness must stop now.