Bush doesn't want to give money or services to the poor. He wants to keep desirable deprivations of the poor from hurting the rich. Drugs are a national disaster because people abuse them, deal them, and fight over them. People abuse drugs because they suffer alienation, deprivation, abuse, and hopelessness. People deal drugs because they don't have a better way to make a living.
People fight over drugs to get a piece of the action.
They only scavenge on the misery. It is caused by the poverty of unemployment. Medill n is a means of widespread distribution, not its cause. Some, like the money launderers at the big banks, want the drug profits to finance their own haciendas in Columbia, Miami, or New York. It is common knowledge that cutting off external sources just increases production within the U.S and that reducing access to less dangerous drugs just increases the distribution of more dangerous ones.