A mere thirteen truckloads of cocaine can meet today's demand at current prices. Law enforcement admits that if it could intercept five percent of supply, it would be phenomenal. So much for the logic of interdiction. Drug prices keep falling and quality keeps rising. But results don't matter much in drug politics.
Demand induces supply.
The profit mechanism ensures it. The paying customer is king. The fundamental truth is that government has lost its drug war. It doesn't matter that the military down there has been condemned repeatedly for human rights abuses and uses anti-drug funding to fight guerillas in a civil war which has cost an estimated 35,000 lives. But the war on drugs cannot be won like a conventional war.