War on Drugs: Is Victory Possible?

In Ben Wallace Wells' article from Rolling Stone, he analyzes the cost and benefits of America's thirty year war on drugs. No matter where you stand on the issue of drug legalization, the drug war in my has been a catastrophic failure, and a fiscal boondoggle. In the article he recounts how this country has spent almost a half-trillion dollars in an effort to eradicate drug use and cultivation. Where are we thirty years later? The article speaks for itself. Check out this aggregation website that displays some fun facts on money spent and citizens incarcerated.