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You can violently punish the buyers instead. These 'businessmen' can do the risk-reward calculus of being shut down. Use civil forfeiture and the varied and interesting arsenal of tools available to government.

Punishment isn't just about deterrent. An equal and perhaps more important part of it is incapacitation; the criminal, while incarcerated, cannot inflict more harm upon the public.

Ah man, I guess we can’t do anything then.

yeah, except throw a tantrum and the towel in