US War on Drugs

By saying that illegal drugs are so bad, we are sending the message that legal ones are ok. When is the last time you have took a piss in a bar urinal that stated "say no to drugs"? Our safe drugs kill far more than all illegal drugs combined. In fact, stats recently showed that 16,000 members of the United States were killed by illegal drugs. That year alone over 400,000 US citizens lost their lives to Cigarettes. Imagine how many of the billions of people in China will die from our tobacco this year :)
We are protecting wealth of those in power. If George W Bush got in trouble for Cocaine he would probably not get in trouble, lets see if he did Google Search: bush used cocaine? Let a person of no wealth commit the same crime...they go to jail. In fact it is nice to see what the US war on drugs is doing to minorities.

Bruce Western, a sociologist at Princeton University, stated the alarming effect of the war on drugs on minorities "41 percent of black dropouts between 22 and 30 were locked up in 1999." While the chances of a black male going to jail in his lifetime are 1 in 3.
We can't kill off our poor since the US is a humane society. We stick them in jail, if fact there is no other industrialized nation which has anywhere near our per capita prison population. We have about 5% of the world population and around 20% of the prison population. In addition to these locked up individuals loosing years of life, we gain what we really want: control. We can control the lives and minds of others using fear. "Fear is not the existence of life, it is its nonexistence exasperated by a loss of hope and humanity."

in summary what does the US war on drugs cost?