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If the drug problems are to be mitigated, the economic benefits of trafficking have to be reduced.
Step 1: Don't interdict. Let the traffickers spread around as much as they want.
Step 2: Go after the end user. Make it a "traffic ticket" with steep fines.
Supply up + demand down will lower price to where there's no significant criminal profit.
If the consequences of being a user are made worse, more will seek help or avoid using in the first place.
The end users have less ability to thwart LE efforts.
Go after the soft target.
It sounds cruel, but it would work.
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Waiting for the perfect moment is a fruitless endeavor.
Make a decision, and then make it the right one through your actions.
"Whoever watches the wind will not plant; whoever looks at the clouds will not reap." -Ecclesiastes 11:4 (NIV)
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