[lotharbot]

I suspect the percentage that gets caught on any given trip is quite low. They're playing a lottery with a 99%+ win chance. When they win, they sell the stuff at a huge markup, and when they lose, all they lose is one shipment and one potential courier who wasn't even in on the plot.

[Wingman4l7]

Exactly. The "War on Drugs" is never going to succeed when all the smugglers have to do is factor in a loss % into their price; it's simple math.

[jrockway]

They still have drug trafficking in Singapore, where you get the death penalty for drug trafficking. I think the key is not to make drugs expensive, but to make them cheap. Then the criminals are out of business.

[Wingman4l7]

Yup -- then the key players just make sure to insulate themselves with plenty of lower-tier traffickers.

Drugs will only be cheap when they are legal.