re: How does the U.S. control the value of dollar by soaking up drug trade money?

I've never really looked at the War on Drugs from this point of view, which is really fascinating.

I've always wondered why our government has been 100 percent committed to the War on Drugs even though experts have long claimed the War on Drugs has been a total failure.

I've always wondered what secret motives the government had to continue the War on Drugs. I assumed the motives were far beyond my understanding: Perhaps foreign policy related, etc. Unless you were directly involved it would be nearly impossible to understand it. And I assume the government believes there's many different angles of benefit to continuing the WoD.

But I never considered this angle.

Very fascinating!