Who Benefits from the War on Drugs?

"All of this has led many to declare the government’s anti-drug crusade a failure. But one man’s failed government program is another’s success. The war on drugs has transferred a vast amount of wealth and power to those who would otherwise have to find honest work. One doesn’t have to be a public-choice scholar to recognize that the drug war, like any war, is merely 'politics by other means,' and that those who benefit from it have no desire to see it ended anytime soon."