Anti-narcotics drive fuelled drug cartels: U.N. | International | Reuters:

A U.N. anti-narcotics drive has backfired in part by making drug cartels so rich they can bribe their way through West Africa and Central America, U.N. crime agency chief Antonio Maria Costa said on Wednesday.

The 10-year “war on drugs” campaign had cut drug output and the number of users, he said. But it had a “dramatic unintended consequence” — profit-gorged trafficking gangs destabilizing nations already plagued by poverty, joblessness and HIV-AIDS.

Hoocoodanode?

You mean that increasingly draconian strategies against illegal drugs increases the profit margin for the suppliers who survive, which gets them more sophistication, and influence, and increases corruption and violence in society?

They could have just asked Al Capone’s ghost, and he would have told them that.