The obvious solution is to fully privatize the DEA. Or leave it to the states.
Or abolish it and let local enforcement handle drugs.
No. Local enforcement is generally very incompetent.
But the guys holding Columbian sex parties aren't?
Local enforcement would result in even more corruption, despite your wet dreams. Can you imagine what a bunch of county-level bubbas would be doing in similar circumstances?
As far as the ones caught and any others engaging in similar activity: they should be made into examples by being publicly executed. This sh!t is sickening: narcs in general are roughly on the same level as pedophiles when you consider their entire existence is to entrap, lie and ruin the lives of other people that would (mostly) go along just fine without their involvement. They are bottom feeders, and nothing more.