It won't work. Look at the drug wars in Mexico and central America. A lot more people dealing drugs kill each other. It's a much more dangerous game over there. Has the possibility of getting murder stop it? No. there's a lot of money to be made.
I could see a militia being created in response to this war.
its already working.
Expect to have more pinoys actually. He recently asked TelCo companies to set up free wifi zones to public places in the country. This will give the rest of the pinoys to have access on the internet for free and might just clam here aiming to accumulate more btc.

Free WiFi is OK. But to browse the internet, you need a smartphone or a laptop. Is he having any plans to distribute laptops for free? He can import used and discarded laptops from the US.
Probably not possible as of now. he despises US in fact he wants the US troops out of the Philippines and establish alliance to China and perhaps Russia
He figured US can't help the current war on drugs as CHR wants to investigate him.