In any event, the fatality rate among cocaine users purely from cocaine is just 0.1% or the same as alcohol. Yet due to Nixon’s long-running misbegotten War on Drugs, we spend billions each year trying to eradicate it—a pointless effort that now includes even the mobilization of the US Navy against fishing boats.
But here’s the thing. Using $40 billion carrier battle groups to blow-up cocaine-transiting speed boats is simply the stupidest, most irrational action ever conceived on the banks of the Potomac, and there is surely plenty of competition for that honor.
The reason is straight forward: Namely, interdiction and destruction of supply only drives up the price and drastically so—thereby making the illicit business of growing, shipping and distributing cocaine all the more profitable. In turn, this also means that the illegal cartels which distribute it are capable of spending whatever it takes to counter-act law enforcement and to compensate for the loss of product due to interdiction.
Stated differently, the idiots behind Prohibition—from alcohol to cocaine and heroin—believe that they can win by defying the law of supply and demand.
They most surely cannot.
The only thing supply destruction actually accomplishes is to massively increase the revenue of the drug cartels and their ability to maintain ever larger armies of ever more violent operatives to conduct their insanely profitable businesses.....
Stated differently, the prohibition cost amounts to more than $53,000 per pound.
What does that $53,000 per pound cost of law enforcement and prohibition in the retail price of coke really fund?
Well, violent criminal syndicates. That’s what!
And yet and yet. The Donald is compounding the insanity by mobilizing $40 billion Naval carrier battle groups to make, well, a lot more totally unnecessary crime on the streets, byways and communities of America.
