[JohnCliftn]

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.

[monkeywrench]

It would be much easier and cheaper in the long run to just MOAB where they grow the stuff. It's not like the countries that profit from it haven't had years of failure, help, and warning.