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conditions would inspire company management to provide safe products and safe working conditions. Failure to do so would result in civil lawsuit settlements. If a company's management failed to change its business practices the business would enter bankruptcy.

This article does not debate that theory to support or reject it for legitimate businesses. The article does borrow the idea as a viable solution to achieve victory in the war on drugs. Make a drug dealer's operations punishable as a civil offense. Force a drug dealer to pay more in civil lawsuit settlements that he makes in drug sales. Drive him into bankruptcy.

Implement a twenty-first century privateer and buccaneer strategy. Allow a licensed lawyer in the US to sue a drug dealer.

A licensed lawyer suing a drug dealer with the assistance of government officials would pay a fixed percentage of his settlement to the government. Why would he want government assistance if it requires payment of a commission to the government? For assistance determining who executes which deal with whom.

If a licensed lawyer argues the lawsuit without government assistance then he keeps one hundred percent of the settlement.

The drug cartels are too large and numerous for the government to defeat without assistance from the private sector. With the large numbers of lawyers in the US depriving drug dealers of the monetary gain that is their motivation for their operations, law enforcement receives the help it requires.

After 40 years of failed policies, it can not hurt to try a new approach.

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