The effects of the repressive strategy can be described as intentional or as unintentional, depending on the goals any government aims to achieve. Government and the police can repeatedly tell law-abiding citizens that the rule of law prevails. Users are marked as criminals. Therefore they do not fit into the daily life of the society they belong to. Behaviour is expected to be non-conformist, and it is.
Users are the drop-outs of society.
Seizure stabilizes local prices. Since there are several criminal organizations involved in illegal trafficking, they compete on the one hand, but on the other hand have an interest in having drugs taken out of the market in order to stabilize local prices. Demolishing manufacturing facilities stabilizes the volume of production. As far as governments are involved in the growing and production of drugs they are in a position to have their army regulate the volume of production. The more repression, the higher the prices, the greater the profits.