Our prisons overflow with people convicted of drug-related crimes, but drugs are more available than ever. Of course none of the government employees responsible for the killing receive more than a slap on the wrist. Forfeiture laws, meanwhile, have turned police work into a form of legalized piracy. Laws allowing enforcement agencies to keep confiscated wealth often determine the targets of anti-drug raids. Hardly any jurisdictions require that a person be proven guilty in order for the government to confiscate his wealth.
Police corruption is a constant problem.
Criminal gangs have flourished under drug prohibition, much as they did in the 1920s. Smugglers and gangsters literally owe their livelihood to the war on drugs. It is becoming painfully obvious that the cure is worse than the disease. Yet some people appear to have learned nothing from alcohol prohibition or drug prohibition and insist that we experience the joys of gun prohibition. Some of the worst abuses of government force in recent years were precipitated by technical and victimless gun-law violations.