By Jacob Collins |Asst. Online Editor| The war on drugs is a miserable failure that shows no sign of ever coming to an end. A 2013 study by Rasmussen Reports showed that 82 percent of Americans think the U.S. is not winning the drug war. Since the beginning of the drug war in 1971, under the Nixon administration, the U.S. has spent over one trillion dollars, according to CNN. The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate per capita in the world, according to prb.com. Meanwhile, the violent crime rate has been at its lowest since 1978, according to Time magazine. The drug war is not only a war against an undefeatable enemy, much like the prohibition, but has cost our … [Read more...] about War on drugs proves costly