More appropriately: Is the “elephant in the room” the fact that US drug policy is bought and paid for by billionaire criminal trial lawyers fully supported by laws made by Congress and upheld by a corrupt Judiciary, both of whom are supported by massive political donations by trial lawyer lobbyists? That elephant?
The sociopaths and their courtiers each want to dip their beaks, but the gangsters with their off-shore accounts are higher on the food chain than the lawyers defending street-level riffraff.
The Big Money is never touched and its Possessors are never arraigned - the bankers need it and them too much.
This money has corrupted ALL levels of government, including Congress and the Judiciary. The whorish trial lawyers simply know which side of their bread is buttered, and by whom.