If you go and ask the cops the relative price for cocaine, and rate it over forty years (since the Reagan era)....nothing has changed the pricing level. With all of the billions spent on police and foreign assistance to disrupt the traffic...the pricing remains virtually the same.
If you can’t disrupt the flow or pricing, then the only objectives left are to take customers out of the mix...mandating they spend 90 days in rehab each time they are caught with any cocaine in their system...or you make the stuff yourself and sell it at 10-percent of what the dealers make (driving them out of business real quick).
Another way to look at it is incentive. If the guberment was successful at eliminating drugs we could drop a couple of agencies that fight drugs. To maintain jobs for the guberment they do a lousy job to insure their jobs are secure.
More drugs equals more guberment employees.
Got some bad news for you dude.
The quality has gone way up and the price had gone down 50%