The War on Drugs has devastated millions of lives, and cost our nation over a trillion dollars. In just the past decade, over 100,000 people have lost their lives in the US and Mexico in violence directly tethered to the unjust war.

The new Prohibition has proven to be the single greatest threat to Constitutional liberties; unreasonable searches and seizures based on smell, no-knock raids based on anonymous tips, asset forfeitures with no criminal charges - all rooted in the War on Drugs.

Its enforcement is unequal, too - black men are imprisoned at a rate over 13x that of white men for drug charges. Black men represent almost two-thirds of drug-related state prisoners.

In 1933, Americans came to the conclusion that Prohibition was a massively violent, unjust, and ultimately unsuccessful war of choice and morality. 82 years later, a regressive DEA head, Chuck Rosenberg, has made national news by calling medical marijuana a "joke".

Many have rightfully called for Rosenberg to be removed. This does not go far enough. Rosenberg is a symptom of the DEA's unbridled corruption and echo chamber politics; he is not a problem unto himself.

The answer, of course, is to end the War on Drugs, and most importantly, to abolish the DEA. We cannot claim to be a shining city on a hill, a beacon of freedom, while we continue to tolerate the existence of an apparatus that imprisons and kills citizens for victimless crimes, and steals their property to fund their pensions.