[kaehurowing]

You will not stop drugs until you start publicly executing drug dealers and drug traffickers.

[Brian Griffin]

“You will not stop drugs until you start publicly executing drug dealers and drug traffickers.”

Someone here once wrote:

“Dealers are better known to each other than to law enforcement, and they kill each other with no due process - yet replacements always spring up, because due to drug criminalization the money is too good for many to pass up.”

[Nifster]

No that won’t do it either

Have you all lost your history lesson from the Volsted Act

[Drew68]

You will not stop drugs until you start publicly executing drug dealers and drug traffickers.

Iran, China, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines all execute drug dealers and all still have rampant drug use.

Anyhow, it doesn't seem logically consistent to execute the lowly street dealers while letting the CEOs of Big Pharma off the hook.

[snoringbear]

“You will not stop drugs until you start publicly executing drug dealers and drug traffickers.”

I’m ok with your proposal about drug dealers and traffickers because, well, the just need killing. However, logic is backwards; it’s the demand side that’s the problem. Eliminate demand and supply will follow. Problem is, nobody, and I mean nobody, has the guts to deal with the demand side of the equation.....

[PLMerite]

“You will not stop drugs until you start publicly executing drug dealers and drug traffickers.”

Concur. We should be doing that anyway because people die due to the crimes they commit.

[familyop]

"You will not stop drugs until you start publicly executing drug dealers and drug traffickers."

...and giving each user two choices. You know the choices. The effort will require the participation of everyone who does not use any "recreational" drugs.

But that's not going to happen, yet. Realization requires much higher casualty rates, so let it run its course for now. Trying to stabilize it will only get extremely expensive. We don't need more expansion of big government or deleterious NGOs, especially state and local.

Non-users in anti-legalization states need to get more politically involved to hold the line, or their states and communities will lose much more in the near future (including business and other economic losses).

[spintreebob]

That means executing Andy Slavitt and half the staff of the Bush and Obama swamp of DEA, ACA, HHS, CMS, FDA, etc. and executing lobbyists for big Pharma, and the executives at big pharma who are in bed with the swamp dwellers ... and especially the people at Johnson & Johnson (makers of the #1 pain reliever Tylenol) for creating this opioid crisis as an unintended consequence of their activity in the swamp.

[Vigilanteman]

Two methods are available and proven. Pick one out of a hat and try it for five years. Then try the other.

The Singapore Model --drug trafficers are hanged. About 200 people a year try it and find out getting one's neck snapped at the end of a rope is too high of a price to pay for the potential profits from dealing. Result-- when Singapore became independent in 1965, one in 10 residents was addicted to an opioid drug. Today, one in 10 residents is a millionaire.

The Portugal Model-- drugs are provided to registered addicts at nominal cost. Result-- Addicts remain useless cancers on society, but the costs of living with said cancers is far less than the war on drugs for a society who doesn't have the will to hang 'em high.

[itsahoot]

You will not stop drugs until you start publicly executing drug dealers and drug traffickers.

China stopped it by executing drug users.