[jonrick46]

My annswer would be a method to take the profits out of drug sales. How do you do that? Open up government run drug dispensories. Drugs would be sold with complete anonymity so it would not discourage the buyers. Drugs would be sold at cost which would deprive drug dealers a substancial amount of income for their share of the market. The government run drug operation would kick the problems of turf wars in the teeth. The government dispensory would be turf won. A drug dealer deprived of his market would dry up and wither away.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

Open up government run drug dispensories. Drugs would be sold with complete anonymity so it would not discourage the buyers. Drugs would be sold at cost which would deprive drug dealers a substancial amount of income for their share of the market. The government run drug operation would kick the problems of turf wars in the teeth. The government dispensory would be turf won. A drug dealer deprived of his market would dry up and wither away.

That would be a tremendous improvement over the status quo - but a private free market could also make illegal dealers dry up and wither away, as it did with the drug alcohol when Prohibition was ended.