We Aren't Really Waging a War on Drugs.

By Rich Kozlovich

On February 15, 2019 Michael W. Chapman posted this article:  "Trump Quotes Xi on Stopping Drug Dealers: 'Death Penalty ... End of Problem", saying:

"During his Rose Garden talk today about declaring a national emergency to deal with the crisis at the southern border, President Donald Trump discussed the scourge of drug dealers and quoted Communist Chinese President Xi Jinping who had told him that China uses the death penalty against narcotics dealers and that ends the problem."

........China had agreed to put the deadly drug fentanyl (synthetic opioid) on its list of illegal products..........."Their criminal list, a drug dealer gets a thing called the death penalty. Our criminal list, a drug dealer gets a thing called 'how about a fine?' And when I asked President Xi, I said do you have a drug problem? ‘No, no, no.’" 

"I said you have 1.4 billion people, what do you mean you have no drug problem?" asked Trump. "‘No, we don't have a drug problem,'" he quoted Xi as saying.  "I said why? ‘Death penalty. We give death penalty to people that sell drugs, end of problem.’".

That may sound a bit harsh, but when you consider the social devastation, misery, suffering and early death these dealers cause to our society, versus the balance of executing drug dealers as a result their impact on society, it's easy to accept.

Many years ago I saw a man discussing China's policy on drug dealers.  It turns out when the Chinese Communists took over China they had the largest drug addicted population in the world per ratio.  According to him they ended that problem in five years.  How?

They went around a arrested those addicted and put them through re-habilitation.  once, twice, and I don't remember if there was a third time or not, but when they reached their limit - they killed them or put them in work camps where they died.  I assume they killed the dealers outright.

Either way:  problem solved.