[RedStateRocker]

How about the economic war of legalizing everything. This takes the PROFIT out of it, which is what keeps the cartels going.

I see nothing in the Constitution which gives the federal government any authority over what I put in my body.

There’s only a profit because substances that should cost pennies cost a great deal.

Let the users OD, a friend calls it the ‘Self-Cleaning Oven Theory”

[Scrambler Bob]

The cartels are now into Avocados, mining, human trafficking, among other non-drug enterprises.

All criminal, and all corrupt.

Legalizing drugs might not affect them much. I even think they are diversifying, for such an event.

Maybe tariffs on their products?

[_Jim]

re: “How about the economic war of legalizing everything. This takes the PROFIT out of it, which is what keeps the cartels going.”

And TAXING (the hell out of) it on the retail / regulated sales end of it puts the PROFIT back in it for underground dealer ‘sales’ network.

[hanamizu]

How about the economic war of legalizing everything.

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Legalizing it, of course means taxing it. As I understand it, cartel weed might well be cheaper than ‘legal’ taxed weed. And what’s to stop the cartels from dominating the legal market—if nothing else by offering ‘protection’ to the legal weed shops.

If the recent history of Mexico offers any lessons, the result of eliminating the major cartels as resulted in the growth of much nastier smaller cartels.

[DiogenesLamp]

Let the users OD, a friend calls it the ‘Self-Cleaning Oven Theory”

China OD'ed about half it's citizenry. It collapsed. A nation cannot survive legalized drugs. China's current dictatorship is a consequence of it's social and economic collapse which was caused by drugs.