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