For no particular reason other than the sheer illogic of it all, the anti-drug "war" was an interest of mine for a while. I read a book, maybe 18 years ago, ab

For no particular reason other than the sheer illogic of it all, the anti-drug "war" was an interest of mine for a while. I read a book, maybe 18 years ago, about a DEA agent that managed to get so deeply embedded with one of the key cartels that he got to the point he was buying directly from the manufacturer (cocaine in this case). At that level, the price was also substantially lower than street price, or even higher-level middle man prices. His comment was that the US could buy ALL the cocaine they could possibly produce for something like 1/4 what they were spending on "enforcement". Of course, there was no interest in that. My personal opinion is that the whole "war on drugs" thing is nothing but a boondoggle perpetuated to give some people jobs and a distracting thing to fight against.