as long as there is drug war there is violence.. this is the most difficult problem to solve since there are a lot of inside jobs on this.

Purging these violent cartels is just busting up monopolies and will open the doors to many sellers who are less prone to violence and more intelligent in their business practices. The end result will be a reduction in drug prices for American consumers and a more peaceful yet flourishing drug market that can make do without the Pablo Escobar style cartels.

Release mycoherbicides into South America and destroy all coca plants at its source. Do it clandestinely if you must. America has the best brains and scientists. Why not unleash biowarfare on drug producers. Damage to the environment is a chance we have to take. But given the fact that millions of lives are already destroyed by drug addiction, there is hardly an alternative. Drug trafficking the darkest form of evil, and it must be eradicated at all cost. May all evildoers burn eternally in the hottest corners of hell.

yeah let's go completely ruin the ecosystem and livlihood of tens of thousands of south americans because americans like to do drugs. screw 'em right? who cares if we poison their land and water, it's not in america so who cares right? it's amazing that people think complete eradication is even possible. it is absolutely impossible to completely eradicate coca plants from this planet. the only thing that would happen if one were to try is that the price of cocaine would skyrocket and guess what. people are still going to ingest it. you may or may not know that clinton tried the eradication effort and failed miserably. the planes had to fly higher than they were supposed to in an effort to avoid ainti-aircraft fire, and in doing so sprayed that toxic liquid on hundreds of acres of legitimate crops and poisoning the water in a huge lake. what that does is make legitimate farmers turn to cocoa and makes the local people harbor resentment for the U.S. bottom line is our government should educate it's people about drugs and let then make an informed opinion rather than using fear, intimidation and fully automatic weapons. oh yeah and mycoherbicides.