Ban milk, and you'll have more little clones of that fellow jumping in to profit from the lucrative black-market milk trade, or is that too sophisticated a point for you to comprehend?
These people aren't killing themselves and others for POT, they're doing it for MONEY.
Yes, and if pot were legal they would increase their other crimes to make up for losing that market. They will never go legitimate; we need as many excuses as possible to get rid of them.
mvpel rightly points out that California law forbids the proper disposal of criminals, but that's why this is a broader war about culture, not about the drugs themselves that are not necessarily a threat to anyone.