What differentiates this from “Terrorism”...that we are afraid to use that word?
Our country has had an unsuccessful War on Drugs for 40 years, and has prohibited most narcotics for over 80 years. We have two choices: either legalize narcotics, as was the case before 1920, and suffer increased social pathologies due to universal availability of drugs, or scrap the Bill of Rights and ruthlessly go after drug peddlers and users under martial law, with summary executions for peddlers and chain gang type imprisonment for users. Mao used these techniques to root out drugs in Communist China.
Neither is a good alternative. However, the worldwide drug traffic is an issue of supply and demand. The "War on Drugs" has failed to prevent either. Frankly, the bribes offered Mexican and American officials are too lucrative for many civil servants to pass up. Either legalize narcotics or go to the most ruthless measures to stamp it out using the Armed Forces and not the civil authorities.