The War on Drugs championed by the puritan US has allowed to fund producer-countries elites with millions of dollars and guns to fight the actual root of drug addiction: the thousands of poor farmers who have no other choice than planting coca leaves in order to survive, because otherwise armed mafias will eliminate them. Nevermind the fact that this huge effort has only lead to an exponential growth of drug production, since most of the money is spent in government corruption, while making richer the cartels.

Of course this successful policy is not focused on those millions of drug-addicts in their own country, because otherwise how would they keep up with stress if they don't snort some coke every day. On the contrary, the DEA needs to work along with cartels to help them in their holy effort. "It's not US, it's them. So let's bring in extradition some of their mafia heads from time to time, to make our people believe that we really are winning this war." All in the name of freedom and democracy, of course. And let's not even think in legalizing cocaine...