How to stop Drugs
by
Matt Giwer (c) 1995 <3/3>

      In practice the way to stop drugs is rather simple. It is rather something that simply requires more courage and less principle than we have.
      I have addressed the obvious problem that there is nothing our society can or will do to drug dealers or users that is worse than what drug dealing or using will do to them. Clearly a drug dealer risks being shot down in the street by rivals. A drug user risks a slow and painful death as a result of using drugs.
      So the answer is clear on how to deal with the street level. We need to simply apply greater penalties than are part of the drug scene. For example, a drug dealer does have to worry about rivals but then there are plenty of times when there are no rival gangs. Thus we simply need to make being shot down on the street for dealing drugs an every day event such that it is a penalty for drug dealing.
      Thus we can simply charge the police and citizen with "holiday" on drug dealers. The pickup trucks can bring out the bodies in the morning. The same for the users. This is a matter of supply and demand and as long as there are users there will be suppliers. So the more users that wind up in the morgue the better.
      Of course this will require suspending some other laws, such as identifying the dead and the cause of death and the like. Perhaps we could even do away with the morgue and have the trucks deliver direct to the crematorium. We would also have to suspend any laws that would hold a person guilty for making a mistake in who they kill.
      Even then this would likely simply move drug dealing from the street corners to more private and protected places. It will therefore be necessary to interdict all drugs coming into this country. The Navy has already worked out the requirements for that scenario. It is very simple. Any plane that can not be identified is shot down.
      It is the sheer number of commercial and private planes that fly into and out of this country that requires this policy. It is just too easy for planes to get into the country by flying under the radar and there are too many of them to follow individually. Only military aircraft have the speed to intercept them in any event.
      Despite being the greatest military power in the world the US simply does not have the assets to do anything other than shoot them down. That is the way it is.
      Again where there is a potential market there will be suppliers and certainly trucks, cars, packages, whatever coming into the country will means of transport. Save for the mails there will be people operating the rest. Summary execution upon discovery of drug smuggling is the only thing that can discourage drug smuggling.
      And then of course there are the countries and states such as Kentucky and Oregon that produce the drugs in the first place. It is impossible to locate all of the growing areas with our present technology. Therefore the only practical means of eradication is to burn out the crops over the entire suspected area.
      In this case we need to do some experimentation before resorting to nuclear weapons. Although it is clear that fire bombing works well against cities that is against the use of dry wood and it is not clear that it will work where the material is green wood. Forest fires start in the dry season for a reason, because it is dry. Certainly to avoid an international incident with Columbia we could test drop say 100 small incendiaries per acre over say 1000 acres of Kentucky or Oregon to see if it is possible to start a firestorm during the growing season when it is naturally moist.
      Should that fail to cause fires that will destroy hundreds of thousands of acres at a time then it is unfortunate but strategic nuclear weapons in the 10 megaton and up range are all that will work to eradicate the drug crops. Of course when these are used against Columbia the yield can be modified for the effect of the mountains upon progress of the thermal front of the blast.
      Truly, if we do wish to stop the drug trade, we have the means in hand. Nothing else we have tried nor anything we are currently doing has done anything but increase the drug trade. It is time to seriously address what needs be done to end the drug trade once and for all.
      I am certain human beings can find it in their heart to do what is necessary to stop it once and for all.