Comments by "Ton Bong" (@tongobong1) on "Colombia's most wanted drug lord captured - BBC News" video.

It is not that easy. Cutting the head is a huge blow to a drug cartel and many collapse.
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@karltanner3953 drugs are killing people. We already have a lot of legal drugs that are deadly: tobacco, alcohol, sugar... We really don't need even more and even more deadly drugs. Another cartel will take their place but it will need many years to replace the supply that was lost by this arrest. This war will continue but it is well worth it because many lives are saved when police destroys the big cartels.
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@karltanner3953 you don't understand the drug problem. If drugs are illegal than they are harder to supply and much more expensive so less people can get them and the number of ruined lives is lower - much lower. Poor people just don't have enough funds to get expensive drugs and taking out the largest cartel can increase the cost of drugs a lot. War on drugs is saving so many lives that is well worth it. Yes the next drug lord will take his area but he will have to build the infrastructure to move much larger quantities of drugs to USA and this takes time - many years or even a decade to fully replace the lost supply.
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