This is a good write up and you are right about a lot of things but you are missing the point of the modern drug war. The money made off of prisons and seizures is minimal compared to the money made off of legal pharmaceutical drugs. This is why the drug war and particularly cannabis and heroin prohibition exist and persist. When cannabis is legalized the number of prescription drug prescriptions written falls significantly. Given that they make somewhere between 500 billion and a trillion dollars a year even a 1% reduction in revenue is 5-10 billion dollars and cannabis legalization reduces prescription use significantly
The old "don't steal the government hates competition" may as well be "don't sell drugs, Purdue hates competition".
Yes, that's true. To keep big pharma making profits, remove self-treatment people can do. I have written about the medical marijuana leading to a reduction in prescriptions as well ;)
its easy to see who opposes legalization by just looking at who funds anti legalization campaigns. Pharma, alcohol and gambling and beet farmers. they don't want competition.