“Black market economies are hard to bust up. When there’s a demand and a supply there will always be sellers.”
I agree.
But make it as difficult as possible for them to succeed and profit. Make the risk as great as possible. Arrest as many as we can. Take their money and seize their assets.
And it still won’t help. If the Soviet Union couldn’t stop drug use we’ll never pull it off. And I’m not willing to become a police state to try, we’ve burned too much of the Bill of Rights on the guaranteed to fail drug war already, it’s far past time to admit that you quite simply cannot ever stop people from doing drugs, if they want to they will.