Yeah, really bugs me that the 'war' on drugs costs billions of dollars a year. And its not working.

They aren't even cutting that much into drug dealers profits. There was something somewhere that showed the profit from drugs and how much the government cut into it, barely made a difference.

10-15% of illicit heroin and 30% of illicit cocaine is intercepted. Drug traffickers have gross profit margins of up to 300%. At least 75% of illicit drug shipments would have to be intercepted before the traffickers' profits were hurt.
from wiki "war on drugs" entry