The ultimate outcome could be a complete Communist takeover of the drug business. The profits would far exceed Soviet expenditures on Nicaragua and even Cuba. Communist involvement is already being used as a justification for intensifying the drug war, but it is the very intensity of U.S. efforts that has put so much power in the hands of our committed enemies. As the narcocrats make the problem worse, they will demand ever more power to solve it. The American criminaljustice system, meanwhile, is on the verge of collapse because of drug prohibition.
Drugs are without a doubt the most powerful corrupters of the police and the court system.
For those who have not been corrupted, the failure of the drug laws to have a positive impact on the drug problem has caused great frustration. This has led to calls for more power to be given to the police, and even to cells for suspending the Constitution. There is no prospect of this happening on a wholesale basis, but our liberties are being incrementally eroded at a rapid pace. The existing and proposed laws constitute the basic elements of a socialist police state. The tragicomical, degrading, dehumanizing invasion of private bodily functions is the perfect symbol of drug prohibition, the logical conclusion of the subordination of the individual to a failed policy.