Could Suppression be Made to Work?

Abstract

Suppression of drug trafficking has been made to work in Turkcy, but only by using methods which would probably not be accepted in the more liberal democracies of the USA and West Europe. Japan has succeeded in developing a climate of public opinion which rejects and despises drug addicts. This is the best approach of all in countries in which there is a tradition of discipline and obedience. Of the West European countries, only the German people have historically shown this capacity but it has probably been bred out of them for a generation by what Hitler did with it. There little likelihood of any other Western democracies developing this attitude. Even if the ‘silent majority’ were to accept it, the criminals and the kind of people who become drug addicts certainly would not.