The war on drugs is a waste of money unfortunately, it is not going to stop the distribution narcotics around the U.S. and globally. In order for the illegal drug market to end the federal government should legalize drugs, because that way drug lords would no longer make money so they won't refer to selling or distributing drugs to make a profit since it would be legal to sell them anywhere. Terminating illegal drugs will increase human health, and will vanish violence that happens from selling and distributing illegal drugs. According to a report

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/06/opinion/branson-end-war-on-drugs/

the prices of heroin, cocaine, and cannabis has decreased over at least 80% between 1990 and 2007, and the average purity of the drugs has increased by 60%, 11%, and 161%. So since there are so much of three of the most common narcotics in the drug market today, the purer the drugs the more valuable they are and the more drug distributors make off them.

It has took about seven different types of government drug surveillance data, and a team of Canadian and U.S. researchers to conclude that the drug supply in the U.S., Europe, Australia, Latin America, Afghanistan, and Southeast Asia has become cheaper while their potency has increased. Thus, leading the conclusion that using law enforcement to control the global drug market is failing. Just image how much money went into using and making all different types of surveillance just to find out that the government's attempt to control the global drug market is failing. This failure attempt only wasted one trillion dollars of tax money that is used ineffectively on a strategy that does not solve anything, and is not going to solve the goal of eliminating illegal drugs. But yet the federal government does not want to legalize drugs.

Source:http://www.thomhartmann.com

Campaign groups have done studies that show drugs policies are needed in order to ground in science, health, and human rights instead of using prohibition. Prohibition of illegal drugs only makes   people want to use them more and sell them in order to make fast money since they are illegal to have or to consume them. The global control of using law enforcement has only proven to be costly, ineffective, and counterproductive, and to top things off it only has generated high levels of violence, crime, and corruption. Living in a city where all these things happen is not a safe environment, which results in tragic deaths and incidents where innocent people can end up killed for nothing. It is really a problem that has to be fixed, but by another way other than the same failure technique used for over thirty years.

When hard liquor was prohibited in the early 1900s it only brought increase in consumption, organized crime taking over the legal production and distribution, and the widespread anger of the federal government that refused to repeal the prohibition until 1933. We can think of psychoactive drugs or narcotics as hard liquor when it was illegal, because illegal drugs have the same outcome on the people and communities as well as on the federal government's reaction. Drugs are the cause of more half than a million people getting incarcerated for drug law violations, while the U.S. prison system had 2.3 million incarcerated. If you really think about it more than half a million people waste their lives in prison out of those 2.3 million incarcerated over illegal drugs. How is this possible, well we have to give props to the federal government for putting more people behind bars for using illegal substances that they probably would not use if they were legal or at least the amount of users would decrease, and as well the violence and crime over illegal drugs.

A Cato study says, that legalizing illegal drugs will save the U.S. about $41 billion a year in enforcing the drug laws. So this study proves my point about legalizing narcotics instead of prohibiting them. It will only benefit to decrease crime, violence, corruption, and it will save a lot of money to the U.S. government. If the government does not try to do at least something different other than using drug law enforcement to stop illegal drugs than it will fail every time and will keep failing to eliminate drugs with no success insight.