” In Singapore which was historically the shipping point for most of the world’s opium they have an answer. If you sell drugs and are convicted they hang you (right now!).”
Malaysia and a number of other places do this. It works. THIS is a REAL war on drugs.
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.
If it worked, they wouldn’t have more people to hang every year.
It doesn’t work. The profit is too large for people to take the risk.
What works is to cut off the dealer by prescribing each addict their daily dose of great heroin and giving the option for humane detox every day. You stop new addicts from being created and gradually reduce your population of old addicts.