[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.