> The real answer is to legalize & sell it, no more drug dealers

On the other hand, there are huge profits and motivators for money laundering. Ask HSBC, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Western Union, or Citigroup.

This is false. Arrest drug dealers day after day for a generation, and the demand will lower because new generations won't even know what drugs are, or when the effect of heroin is, therefore they won't chase it.

Demand for a good (or drug in this case) it is not inevitable. It can be disrupted too, it's not a given.

But the demand for any good cannot be disrupted without first and foremost removing the supply. So we must start disrupting the supply, which shows up every day at 6am on our street corners.

Economics would tell us that if you decrease the supply of something that has a high demand, then the price will rise. That means it's more valuable for criminals to distribute, and they will also use more violence to protect this trade.

So while we're cracking skulls to achieve your drug-free nirvana, we've basically consigned a generation to hell. Constant police patrolling and intervention in their communities, extremely violent narco-traffickers, and yet somehow no treatment for addicts.

Show me somewhere that it has worked and I'll believe you, I've never seen it though.