It's a mess. Coca and opium poppy are cultivated worldwide, and production would be easily shifted elsewhere. Gen. McCaffrey admits that coca production has tripled over the last few years in Peru. Domestic production of methamphetamine, a central nervous stimulant similar to cocaine, can be quickly expanded too. The entrepreneurs of the drug trade usually keep a few steps ahead of the gumshoes.
Traffickers have it pretty easy.
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.