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.

In the same way that overly strict parenting often increases rebellious behavior, a recent study by political scientist Dorothy Kronick and economist Juan Castillo highlights how militant policies often increase the violence they initially aim to curtail.

Thanks to Drug Prohibition, the classic, Norman Rockwell-esque picture of the friendly neighborhood cop serving up justice to citizens has become a picture of the heavily armed cop serving up citizens to justice.