Many users are easily reached but not all. Cocaine and amphetamine are still hugely popular and accepted in the high end of society with lawyers and businessmen/CEOs among them.
The top dogs in the organizations are a whole other deal. How are you going to reach people who are protected by officials, in some cases by the same people who are supposed to go after them?
What will happen is, inconsequential and totally replaceable dealers will go down together with users not so fortunate as to have a job title to hide behind and the people pulling all the strings, recruiting, bribing, blackmail and kill their way into society will go free.
Apart from this: Users need to kick their habit. Easy to say, huh? but it's the truth. Prison, death, that's not what they need. They need to get out of it. If they can do it themselves then great, and some do get out with support from family and people around them. If they can't quit themselves, then they should get the aid they need to put it behind them. What that should be, I don't know but it is a case-to-case issue.
For the dealers I have a lot less sympathy but I do acknowledge that behind any dealer on the corner is a trail that leads to heavy duty organized crime and the poverty that drives farmers to grow opium or coca plants.
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