Another suggestive episode in which the "War on Drugs" is really an internal one.
Agents within the DEA are at war with renegade growers, certainly, but they are also at war with other agencies (like in showing up dead), including local cops who deal (Florida, under Bob Marinez, was the great gate, and not because of sloppy governing, and there are connections to Bush ((I know, urban legend cause there is scant google)). It is also agents against agents. Drugs for evidence are routinely planted, and a lot of innocents get chewed up. Some of the books written by former insiders describe an atmosphere where many agents are users, stealers, and sellers of drugs, as well as a part of the protective arm. Alledgedly, agents kill other agents, because such actions are inevitable in an arena of horror where paranoia multiplies like mold.
The prisons are full of young men, mostly, who grow marijuana in a renegade manner, as in somebody else's turf. They are fodder to the industry. Routine maintainance and cleaning.
It is a satan's game, but rarely mentioned by those commenting on Satan's games.
Were I elected pres, I would have the DEA locked up shut in a day.
No legitimate objection could be made, because it is not the concept of the agency that I object to, it is the corruption that makes the agency look like a Mexican police posse.