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Brazil's deadliest ever police operation - 120 dead after Rio de Janeiro drug raid

I have posted this because I am interested in how do governments stop the deadly trade in drugs?
Nothing seems to work. Remove a few to prison, no dent in the supply lines.
Remember the Philippine war on Drugs instigated by President Rodrigo Duterte?
By 2022, the number of drug suspects killed since 2016 was officially tallied by the government as totaling 6,252.
Taken from the International Drug Policy Consortium;
The current punitive, prohibitionist drug policies implemented in ASEAN countries have not achieved their ‘drug-free’ goals nor achieved any substantial progress in reducing supply and preventing drug-related harms

President Trump has begun his own war on drugs when the military started missle strikes on Venezuela boats purported to be carrying drugs to the US
The assaults bring the total number of airstrikes on boats to 13 ‒ and total deaths to at least 57.

So how can the drug trade be stopped?
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Monalisasmith86 · 36-40, F
It doesn’t work it minimum 10 years prison sentence then then when they are out they’ve made their money whilst sitting in prison, even death sentences don’t work
Gusman · 61-69, M
@Monalisasmith86 Correct. Death sentences do not work because those people without money will take every risk to make "easy money".
There is no answer, other than stopping to drugs at the source.
An impossible endeavour.
Monalisasmith86 · 36-40, F
@Gusman I reckon if they made drugs legal and minimised how much to take people would do it less it’d less of an appeal
Gusman · 61-69, M
@Monalisasmith86 The synthetic, manufactured drugs are too deadly.
Too many people would die. Hospitals would never be able to cope. They can hardly cope now.
minimised how much to take.
What you are saying here is that every person who wants to take drugs get a prescription from the doctor and only take the prescribed amount.
That does not happen now, with prescriptions.
Monalisasmith86 · 36-40, F
@Gusman yes , a lot of medications do form some kind of illegal drug which a lot of people want to be prescribed for it not me though I hate taking medication
Monalisasmith86 · 36-40, F
@Gusman why do you think ozempic works and makes so many frail
Gusman · 61-69, M
@Monalisasmith86 No idea about ozempic.
A side effect of long-term use is muscle degeneration and bone mass reduction. Bones become weaker.
Monalisasmith86 · 36-40, F
@Gusman I use ozempic I didn’t work emmediatly I had to exercise as well to get improvements
Monalisasmith86 · 36-40, F
@Monalisasmith86 you know what I don’t understand countries where drug smuggling is illegal and there’s a death penalty, they still manage to spike drinks