It's The Only Solution!

It will turn a billion dollar industry into a million dollar industry. The amount of drugs coming in from the border will be reduced to 1%. People can't do drugs if they can't buy them.

There's a reason deep staters are fighting so hard to keep the wall from happening. The CIA will collapse without its drug and trafficking money.

Hah! Dealers, growers, manufaturers, users will all find a way to hook up, sea ports, more tunnels, air. They always have and always will find a way to move product, to actually think a wall will stop that is naiive. Cartels are very smart, they see a problem, they solve it.

The poppy fields of Afghanistan produce most of the opium, which becomes heroin. These are watched over by the US military, therefore, the flow of horse coming over the border is not going to be impacted. Pharmaceutical companies are the biggest group of dealers anyway. This wall is not going to stop them.

Then, there's the point of the post: people aren't just going to stop doing drugs. They're going to rob more pharmacies, steal from more people who use painkillers, try other, dangerous, chemical compounds; and more Americans will turn into mules.

People aren't doing drugs, because there are drugs. People do drugs, and more get brought in.

You're missing pieces of the puzzle in your first paragraph. The military is a tool. It's the people that were telling the military where to go that are the criminals. Why do you think big pharma was backing Obama? It started way before him, though.

Trump isn't about that. I wouldn't be surprised if he pulls the troops out of Afghanistan. Maybe not, poppies are pretty important. Hopefully the Afghans won't be too resentful and continue production on their own.

Heroin and the illegal opiates mostly come through the southern border (Not all, but the single highest majority majority). That's what the wall is for. It's going to cut off a massive stream of income for the bad guys in the government.

I don't know what the plan is to deal with the addicts. That's a secondary concern. Addicts aren't the ones directing the US towards destruction.

You're right, the demand for drugs is going to be higher than it's ever been once the wall is built. Hopefully the addicted all move to sanctuary cities in California and the weight of them causes California to break off from the mainland and sink into the pacific.