It has proved to be an impossible goal for almost 30 years. It's past time to stop this folly.
Drugs are cheap to produce.
If they were legal and taxed like alcohol, they would still be cheap, with little financial incentive for criminals. Quit giving jail terms for use of drugs just as we do for alcohol and cigarettes. Our prison population would drop sharply. We could provide a big public program to treat addicts and to assist families of addicts. Taxes on drugs, plus our drug-war chest and prison costs for addicts would provide money to do it.