The Problem: In the introduction to the book Massing tells how no other area of the United States social police has fail like the war on drugs. The budget for the drug war went from $1.5 billion annual budget to more than $17 billion. The U.S. has done many things to stop drug abuse and drugs from leaking into the country such as sending spy planes to other countries to monitor drug production, and to hire confidential informants to bust drug dealers. As a result more than 1.5 million people have been arrested for drug related offenses and the prison inmate total for drug offenders rose from fewer than 30,000 in 1980 to over 300,000 today. This has done little to the appetite for drugs in the U.S. and all that can be seen is a constant flow of a now purer form of the drugs that we have spent so muc

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