Can't the Feds do anything about the Mexican cartels and Russian mafia (mafiya) that seem to do virtually anything at will? It almost seems as if the Feds are terrified of the criminals. I read a paper from a Californian police department that made the Mafiya seem unstoppable.
They may be ruthless criminals, but they are still criminals and thus should be stopped.
Are you kidding? The demonrat legislators/lawyers conglomerate will never allow their main source of income to be dried up.
Judges let them go. There's story after story, so many stories that it is not even news anymore.
Addiction creates big demand. At the present level of enforcement drug prohibition serves only as price supports.
I suppose it could be possible to crush the drug runners, but it would take a massive effort, and it would be resisted by some decent, conservative people who don't want massive federal police actions.
Alternative is to repeal drug prohibition. That won't reduce crimes related to drugs:
- theft will still be a problem because addicts will always want more than they can afford;
- violent crimes will still be a problem because drugs mess up peoples minds and addiction erases addicts' spiritual values.
But it will let us divert the public moneys now used for drug prohibition to addiction treatment.