For me, the drug war is simple.
A group of people believing themselves to be above the law - greater than even the Supreme Law of the Land - that cared nothing for the opinions of the courts worked up a ferver in the public that created a "scare."
This "scare tactic" or - as we'd call it today, terrorism, made the people DEMAND to be protected from an artificial threat...
That allowed those people, still believing themselves above the law, to rush in and claim all kinds of powers over a once free people.
The Controlled Substances Act is unconstitutional and invalid - as though it had never been written...
