Interdiction causes the extreme profits made by the drug cartels.
A balanced programme of interdiction; treatment and counselling; and controlled and unadvertised legalised sales of drugs would undermine these profits.
Similar spirals of violence have been seen in the wake of interdiction efforts in Colombia.
The medicinal-marijuana and needle-exchange issues have nothing to do with drug enforcement and interdiction; they are, in Mr Weld's phrase, "complete phoney baloney".So assume, as most of Mr Helms's fellow Republicans do, that there is more to this than drugs.
Perhaps Mr Schumer should demand the interdiction of Frankfurter sausages.
Those who wish to undermine the profits of the drug cartels or those who insist on the interdiction programme that keeps the cartels alive EDWARD BRYANTNew YorkSIR If America is serious about curtailing the drugs trade, it should call off the "war" as it is now being pursued and instead allow the importation, growth or manufacture of currently illicit substances to proceed unhindered.
NATO justified its interdiction of the Jupiter on the ground that its fuel would have been used by the army to attack civilians.On June 7th the European Union, prodded by Britain, imposed sanctions on six ports still held by Colonel Qaddafi.
But the speed and scale of the attack that began in the early hours September 23rd still achieved a high degree of tactical surprise.Using air and missile power to cripple IS will require a massive interdiction bombing campaign to attack its entire military structure, especially the bases from which its foreign volunteers operate.
It maintains a reassuring presence off west Africa and in the Caribbean (where it helps with hurricane relief and drugs interdiction).
Incensed by its inability legally to confiscate a weapons shipment from North Korea to Yemen that was intercepted at sea earlier this year, America decided to set up a new interdiction regime to crack down on such trade.
Anti-drugs efforts are also being wound up: last month eight Huey helicopters and three other aircraft used for interdiction were handed to the Bolivian authorities.As the Americans pack their bags, Mr Morales is just settling in.
