So that's a vote for the United States of America to emulate a repressive regime. Me, I'll stick with our Founders' vision of limited government.
It is not a repressive regime. The millions of Americans in jail for drug offenses is repression. If the government would just stop the dealers permanently there would be vastly fewer people in prison.
The drug world loves to start them young. They hook them and destroy their lives before they can even get started. All the inner city violence stems from this very drug trade. Dead dealers don’t deal any more!
Hanging drug dealers is not repressive. It is what any sane and rational government would do. Putting up with drug dealers is repressive. It is why so many people live lives of misery. They just create victims.