[Gideon Reader]

No. It is not the "Drug War".
It was the stupid and careless execution of a Search Warrant by an alleged law enforcement entity, that did not have its shit together.
I would really like to read the Warrant and the Application and Affidavit for the Search Warrant as well as the ***REQUIRED***specific and particular description of the premises and curtilage to be searched and where they expected to find the contraband.

If anyone has personal problems with the "drug war" and it's connection to the procedures of the search and the warrant procedure, extensively and precisely governed by the Forth Amendment just replace the term "drugs" with contraband, i.e. explosives, child porn, widgets, macaroni, whatever.

It's HOW the search is executed and conducted. Not rocket science but not exactly art either. There is a correct and prescribed manner in which these things are done, with oversight (hopefully) by the supervisory echelon of the law enforcement entity. Mistakes do happen. But they should be rare to the extreme, if the individual executing Officers/Detectives/Agents do their job correctly and accurately.
Generally when incidents of this type occur, it is because of the piss poor selection of personnel by police agencies for their Detective/Investigator units.

[discostu]

But the drug war is the specific excuse that's been used by the government to make no-knock searches part of their regular repetoir, and to expand the list of products that make you a potential bad guy to include things in almost every American home like alergy medicine.