Admittedly, the "International Centre for Science in Drug Policy" has its own slant on things, but it's hard to dispute many of the facts in this study:
New research shows war on drugs has failed to reduce supply and access to illegal drugs internationally
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A new study published in the British Medical Journal Open finds that the prices of illegal drugs have generally declined while their purity has increased over the past twenty years, raising questions about the effectiveness of international law enforcement efforts to reduce drug supply. Researchers from the International Centre for Science in Drug Policy reviewed two decades of global drug surveillance data, finding that the supply of major illegal drugs has increased, as measured through a decline in the price, while there has been a corresponding general increase in the purity of illegal drugs.
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So after several trillion dollars of global "enforcement" over the past century, this is our result. I wouldn't say it's especially promising, though...
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