Why did the War on Drugs fail?

What you do not know, you will fear. What one fears, one destroys.

—Chief Dan George

When we want to solve a problem, we deal with the cause, not the effect.

The cause of drug trafficking and violence is the demand for drugs, not their production.

The global drug problem was not, cannot, and will not be solved on the side of the supply. It will be solved on the side of the demand.

We do not wage war on addictive behavior: we monitor, research, educate, and overcome.