While not specifically about Operation D Minus or drug prohibition, this story is very telling of the incredulity, destructiveness, and repercussions usually not associated, or told about, in the "Drug War".

After all, if cannabis were legal, Operation D Minus may never have happened, and cannabis would be regulated making it even harder for him to get. And this kid, naturally following his hormones, is now affected for life because of a stupid law, and the (should be illegal) shady tactics commonly used by police forces across the U.S.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/457/what-i-did-for-love?act=2