Essentially, what the War on Drugs comes down to is police hurting people for them hurting themselves

More accurately, for ostensibly hurting themselves. There's no justification for the notion that "drugs" are inherently harmful; quite the opposite, in fact. There's plenty of documentation of this fact on Steem. See #marijuana and #psychedelics just for starters (go to the New listing instead of Trending to see all the posts).