Back when they had the death penalty and cops were seldom ever questioned about why they shot anyone, there was absolutely no shortage of crime. Ever hear of Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Capone, and a host of others? The MOB loved prohibition. They made a killing off it and there was lots of violence and murder due to the money involved. Prohibition made something with little value very valuable.
What did we learn from this? Apparently nothing.
In the 60s there were actually very few drugs around. Yes, some pot was being smoked mostly Mexican ""dirt weed" and there were a few heroin junkies in the big cities. Then came the "War on Drugs". After 50+ years, the prisons are overflowing, Mexico along with lots of the rest of central and South America are war zones controlled by drug cartels. The pot is 10 times stronger, cocaine, heroin, meth and Fentanyl are available at every intersection in America, gangs control lots of the inner cities and their turf wars have bullets flying everywhere.
Why? Mostly because our government made a bunch of easy to produce stuff extremely valuable. A kilo of coke in Columbia is 4K and in the U it is worth 60 before being distributed to the end users. Heroin has similar values, Fentanyl sells wholesale for 4K a kilo but on the street it is worth $1500 a gram of pure. That is a mark up of 375 times before it is cut some more. A good chemist with a Meth lab is like printing money.
The thing all the distributors, all the way up and down the supply chain, want is money and more money and the way to get it is MORE CUSTOMERS
We have lost the war for over 50 years using all kinds of penalties. NEWS FLASH Keeping the same approach isn't going to turn it around. If you shoot 10 of them in the back of the head on the spot, they will just sent 100 on the next trip. Most of it isn't coming in in back packs anyway. Airplanes, ships, drones, subs, tunnels etc. Shut one down and 3 more pop up.
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