[ConservingFreedom]

Gen. Kelly rightly laments "the unbelievable levels of drug profits (approximately $85 billion) available to transnational criminal organizations to literally buy police departments, court systems and even governments." What he doesn't seem to realize is that the War on Drugs puts those billions in criminal hands by locking legal business out of the drug market. Eliminating drugs is as utopian a fantasy as Prohibition was - regarding drug profits, the only question is who will reap them.

[mgist]

The illicit drug profits are more like $150 MILLION USD. They were estimated at $109 in 2010.

If you think for a minute the cartels are going to bend over, and compete in a free market you have no idea who you are dealing with.

Heroin is already legal in Rx format. The Russian Mafia is making bank in the Black Market Rx Opiates. Kids are dropping like flies in the NE.

Fentanyl is a bioweapon used in war, and to assassinate people, it is 100x more powerful than morphine, and all over the streets. Kids these days don’t stand a chance.