The Drug War has been a bi-partison effort: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Bk2t0MuvKs. Pretty much everyone lost their fricking mind in the 1980's and 1990's, when the modern drug war was implemented.[1] Clinton doubled-down on the drug war even as he had to lie that he'd "never inhaled" while smoking marijuana. Even many conservatives (40% of republicans today support legalizing marijuana), would not agree with the hardline positions mainstream democrats took on drugs back then.

[1] I just watched "Straight out of Compton" and was reminded of Tipper Gore's war against music in the 1990's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_7NSXnlQ64. "Liberal democrats" like her were a pillar of the drug-war movement back then.