If the war on drugs has proven to be a failure, why are most governments focused on incarceration instead of rehabilitation?

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If the war on drugs has proven to be a failure, why are most governments focused on incarceration instead of rehabilitation?

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>If the war on drugs has proven to be a failure

There is your problem. Logical fallacy – complex question, or possibly begging the question. There is no objective proof that the war on drugs is a failure, because there are no defined check-points (i.e. what is success and what is failure).