One of the myths, he said, is the idea that legalizing drugs will reduce violent crime. Most are in state prisons for other crimes, he said. DEA officials said the use of illicit drugs in the United States has dropped 50 percent since 1979, a clear sign that broad anti-drug efforts are working. It has been the agents of local, State and Federal anti-drug agencies that have been dispensing myths concerning illicit drugs, drug users, and their efficacy in 'fighting' both. For the past 20 years, at all levels of government, the US has spent upwards of 500 billion taxpayer's dollars in such a fight.
Drugs are cheaper, more plentiful, and purer than ever before.
Hardly a sign of success. You can bet the private citizens were outspent by a factor of at least 1,000 to 1. The DEA agents complaining about citizens spending their own money to bring these issues to light is rather like a fat man complaining that a skinny man eats too much. And is offering advice in dietary matters. It's called the screaming anti's, the more they scream the more stupid they look, they're losing, no doubts.