Western Cape and the war on drugs

Is the Western Cape government winning the war on drugs or have the drugs won?

The Premier likes to talk tough about the scourge to drugs. Drug arrests are up. Those would be for possession and the sale of those drugs. The statistics don't lie:
2003 - 19,940
2004 - 30,432
2005 - 34,788
2006 - 41,067
2007 - 45,985
2008 - 52,781
Where does it all end? The prisons are over crowded as it is. Cape Town alone has 300000 tik users with similar numbers smoking cannabis. Can we expect the authorities to draw a line down the middle of the city declaring half of it to be a prison? The authorities talk tough, but the situation has gotten beyond them. The prohibition of drugs has not worked. The drugs are on the streets. The state is not in a position to regulate drugs when they are illegal. The time has come to consider the alternatives. Are these illicit drugs really so dangerous? Where are the bodies? Alcohol is the most dangerous drug of all generating bodies at a rate of knots. Why then is the dangerous one legal and the far less dangerous ones illicit?