By Alex Henderson In December 2021, José Irizarry, a former agent for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) was sentenced to 12 years in prison for conspiring to launder money for Colombian narcotraficantes. Irizarry has been cited as a textbook example of a federal law enforcement agent who went bad, but according to some critics of U.S. drug policy, the War on Drugs was bad to begin with. Libertarian journalist Radley Balko, a scathing War on Drugs critic known for his work for the libertarian Reason and the Washington Post, has long been arguing that the War on Drugs is terrible policy for…