The global illegal drug market is a $500 billion-dollar-per-year industry that—thanks to Drug Prohibition—has been handed over to cartels and gangs “for them to fight over on our streets,” according to End It For Good founder Christina Dent. This is just one aspect of the devastating harm prohibition causes in our society and in our loved ones' personal lives.

Although the US is still mired in the outdated and ineffective modus operandi of seize-and-destroy when it comes to drugs, there have been some heroic voices of dissent over the course of the past few years that bear mentioning (and emulating).

As we’ve shown time and again throughout our research and content, the War on Drugs has failed, and it’s time to focus on the shift to a winning strategy. The country—and the world at large—cannot sustain the mass incarceration, the growing overdose deaths, and the complete complicity with organized crime that Drug Prohibition enables.

The War on Drugs is one of complicity, as evidenced in Vice News' excellent 2020 video covering the rise of drug-related violence in Culiacán, Mexico, despite the surge of the global pandemic.

Over the course of an entire year, Common Pleas Judge Paul Michael Pozonsky took cocaine from an evidence locker and replaced it with baking powder.