The resources exist now, the only thing lacking is the public will to use them.
Make selling illegal drugs a capital crime and the entire network of suppliers will dry up (or die) in a few short months.
(Posted this just to tick off the dopeheads :^) )
That would make the French Revolution's Reign of Terror look like a Girl Scout cookie sale! I am glad you posted that, John O. It shows how futile it is to wage unthinking 'war' on drugs, because it would have to be real war on US citizens, waged from the Federal level. Besides, do you think Mexican drug cartels will be intimidated by threats of death sentences? They face death and deal out death every day. They are hard core.
Face it, to wipe out all drugs, we would have to invade and conquer Mexico and many other countries and declare martial law, then fight a decades long war in those places. There's a phrase for that - MISSION IMPOSSIBLE.
It is currently impossible, the death of a victim is required to impose the death penalty in the US.
You think so, eh. Read this:
Iran has executed more than 10,000 narcotics traffickers in the last decade;
http://www.payvand.com/news/04/mar/1012.html
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Iran has the highest proportion of heroin addicts in the world and a growing Aids problem.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_world/3791889.stm