但禁毒执法上层建筑的惯性（在美国和欧盟价值均达到400亿美元）在对毒品和卡特尔所造成“威胁”根深蒂固的恐惧的推动下，似乎一而再、再而三地将政策推向不由分说镇压的一成不变的选择。
But the inertia of a bureaucratic drug-enforcement superstructure (worth approximately $40 billion each in the US and the EU), sustained by a deep-seated fear of the “threat” posed by drugs and cartels, appears to push policy repeatedly towards the familiar option of repressive auto-pilot.