The “war on drugs” is the name given to the battle against prohibition that the United States has been waging for more than forty years. And it was America's longest war. “War” was officially declared by President Richard Nixon in the 1970s due to the abuse of illegitimate drugs. Nixon called him "public enemy number one" and enacted laws to combat the importation of narcotics. The war on drugs in the United States began in the late 1980s in response to cocaine trafficking. As the war continues, it hardly seems possible to win it. As the NewsHour reported, the National Office of Drug Control Policy spends approximately nineteen billion dollars a year trying to stop drug trafficking. Expenditures increase indirectly, through crime, hospital stays, etc. However, people spend about three times as much money on drugs as the government spends on fighting these drugs. How can this war be won when the government has to spend so much money to fight it? In addition to the ridiculous cost of all the factors of war, the availability of illegal drugs comp...