Illegal drug Economics 101

Lets review what the War on Drugs (version 1.0 (Nixon)  through 5.0 (Bush jr)) has done for drug distribution.

• If no one wanted drugs, the money would disappear.
• If there were no money in drugs, there would be no drugs.
• Attacking transport side of drugs does nothing to demand except make the commodity more precious. Since drug addicts are indeed addicted, they will sacrifice rent, food, children to get the drugs. This means that making the supply more rare only runs up the price that addicts must pay to get their fix. This runs up crime rates and does little to stop drugs flowing over all.
  
• Most growers of drugs are small time farmers who have or have had other crops that just didn't work out. Thus, they are difficult to round up and put in jail in mass. The Taleban had cracked down hard in Afghanistan and all but killed the opium (heroin) production in that country. This devastated the economy. Now that the U. S. has kicked the Taliban out, opium production, and thus the Afghanistan economy is back on the mend.
  
• End users are sucking up huge amounts of resources by being incarcerated as apposed to treated. If/when they get out, they start the addiction cycle over again and cost even more money.
  

So, the War on Drugs has made the problem worse. If I didn't know better, I would swear the Democrats had been in charge the whole time. 

• Incarceration of users and traffickers doesn't work by itself.
• Attacking the flow of drugs by itself doesn't work.
• Offering treatment to addicts doesn't work by itself.
• Going after growers is ineffective.
• Attempting to make drugs uncool hasn't worked by a damn sight.
  
• Media blitzes don't work either.
• Movie depiction of drug addicts in horrible lives doesn't work (Train Spotting).
  
• Education of young people about the dangers doesn't work.
• Legalization and taxation won't work because it hasn't worked for cigarettes.

So, what will fix the issue? How do I know!?  I might say put a slightly radio active element in shipments of drugs and send them out to the masses. Then test for said radio active traces and start rounding people up. Put them in work camps to make things that are currently made in China. If they get sick from the radiation, fuck 'em. I might say this, but it is politically incorrect to want to bring harm to those who unwittingly (read don't give a shit) support our enemies. Hey, they are sick and can't help spending their money on drugs that they ingest without aid of a gun to the head. ... Oh, yes, politically incorrect.