The function of the Drug War is to create the Drug Crisis. The Drug Crisis involves billions of dollars of hidden cash flow. Addicted to this flow of money are law enforcement agencies, drug producers and distributors, covert agencies who use it as a source of black funding, and politicians and bankers who are hired to protect the drug revenues. Addiction to drug revenues requires that the drug war be fought so as to be lost. Failure thus becomes the criterion of success.

1. The Function of the Drug War - by J. Orlin Grabbe Page 1
The Function of the Drug War
by J. Orlin Grabbe
The function of the Drug War is to
create the Drug Crisis. The Drug Crisis
involves billions of dollars of hidden
cash flow. Addicted to this flow of
money are law enforcement agencies, drug
producers and distributors, covert
agencies who use it as a source of black
funding, and politicians and bankers who
are hired to protect the drug revenues.
Addiction to drug revenues requires that
the drug war be fought so as to be lost.
Failure thus becomes the criterion of
success.
Many state agencies, and federal
agencies su