DEA budget in in the billions of dollars each year and increasing. It is in the best interest of the cartels, DEA, and CIA to have partial prohibition on drugs: cartels so they can increase profits, DEA so their funding will increase, and CIA to benefit from extra funding via drug transports. As some have mentioned, people will obtain needed pain relief through unlicensed pharmaceutical distributors, which will result in increase of heroin use. The government is manufacturing new crises to solve, in order to expand the ever-increasing bureaucracy.