What's the War on Drugs Really About?

 I saw something on TV about drugs and it pissed me off. 

I've been a speaker for the LEAP the Law Enforcement Action Partnership for over 25 years. I believe the drug war is an abject failure and has been for years. 

We have 24,000 deaths from cocaine, 30,000 from meth, 79,000 from opioids like fentanyl, that's 133,000 deaths each year from illegal drugs...

BUT Alcohol kills almost 200,000 people, tobacco kills 500,000, so that's 700,000 people a year from legal drugs. So what's the drug war really about? Money, Power, and Politics... 

America has 5% of the worlds population and 25% of the worlds prisoners. Land of the free?? 

Each year DEA cuts the production of opioid pain medications forcing chronic pain patients to choose the street or death. 

This is just my opinion but with marijuana legalization DEA is forced to look for other bad guys. So they turn legitimate pain patients and physicians who treat them into criminals to justify the agency existence.