The little guy on the street is isn't the big problem, it's the source. I'd rather have the cops going after that.
I'd rather have cops doing both. It isn't a zero-sum game. As Guliani's "Broken Window" theory has borne out in NYC, the toleration of small crimes creates the atmosphere for large crimes to flourish.
But, tell you what, next time your house is burglarized or your business vandalized, just call the cops and tell 'em not to bother. Tell 'em to spend the time solving a murder instead.
The problem is that there are several groups that oppose ending the WOD, all for their own reasons. The first group is the people who sell the drugs and make a HUGE amount of money on it. The second are politicians who can scare the sheeple into giving them more money and power. The third is the various LE agencies who fund a large part of their operations with the money they can steal from the people, who then use their activities to make their little kindgoms bigger so they can steal even MORE money from the people. The last are the most pathetic. They are the people who have totally swallowed the belief that we are better off with tens of thousands of cops snooping through our cars with drug sniffing dogs than allow some hippie to smoke dope in his living room.
P.S. I forgot the most loathsome group of all that opposes ending the WOD: the politicians who are on the take.