But if it was all about domestic politics then there would have been no reason to to that.
The higher ups cannot say "we don't care" because that would immediately politically de-legitimize the drugwar effort.
Hence, all policies, despite their true intent, have all sorts of unnecessary appendices unrelated to the original goal.
You're not wrong (well you arebecause even that doesn't work), but things like cannabis are entirely domestic so no international cooperation required. The harder stuff typically originated from places that weren't close American allies so our cooperation wasn't particularly important.
Not true at all.
> because its goal was to incarcerate, disenfranchise, extort, terrorize, and break apart the families of minorities so that America could retain a racial hierarchy after the civil rights movement
IF you believe this then trying to solve the problem at its roots you are undermining your own strategy.