"Hmmm... $400 billion over 10 years, sounds like a familiar figure. Oh, yeah, that's the US millitary budget... but only for one year."

If you are including the cost of Afghansitan and Iraq, that's correct.
Or you could say all nation building costs type miltary operations will cost somewhere around the same as this drug benefit program- over the same period of time- the next 10 ten years.
Or you could say that it's *in the ballpark* of the total cost of all economic losses that could be broadly assigned to having a few terrorists crash a few jetliners into the Penagon and Twin Towers.

"What am I saying?"

Hmm, I would guess, you would prefer that the Federal govt was spending tax dollars on drugs rather than on Defense? Hopefully you dreaming that this will somehow lower costs on drugs?
Yes?