I live in the South and virtually all of our serious drug users are young to middle age white guys from the rural areas who just simply lost their reason for being or never had one. The work their fathers did is gone, the support they got from the establishment was nil - remember the “deplorables” - but Trump is restoring their jobs and their respect. And this is true for the black population, too.
The fact that some trucks had Texas plates doesn’t have mean we’re responsible - it means that the Mexican gangs have blatantly infiltrated the US, and we need to do something about this.
I live in a Trump loving deplorable area that is rust belt Appalachia through and through. There is even a famous book about it. Before fent it was meth, it was coke, it was weed, and it was and still is alcohol. Jobs and respect have come and gone and come again.
Bull crap to drug use will be cured through jobs and respect. We haul drug users out of our manufacturing plants handcuffed on gurnies. What a joke, good jobs go begging because of drug use.
Criminal drug usage is a US problem that drives demand. The US has exported it it criminal drug problem. Want to get rid of cartels get rid of users of illegal drugs.
Alcohol is still the number one abused drug and the social and economic impact are enormous. We aren’t fighting that war anymore so why are fighting this one? Except to empower the nanny state and an intrusive rights abusing federal and local government.
The US has done the worst possible thing, it has essentially decriminalized drug usage of illegal drugs and tried to crack down on distribution instead. A modern day Prohibitio. It will never work unless we go all Saudi or Singapore which we will not. Even worse the US protects users from the consequences of usage. Cops even carry Narcan. Free food, free cellphones, emergency room visits, free shelter,
If drugs are outlawed, then only outlaws will have drugs. And sell drugs and make drugs.