Unless you legalize pot, you won’t be able to stop something that profitable. Or at least more than half the profits according to that article.
I don’t see these guys smuggling tobacco into the states.
I imagine it would be a pretty serious blow to Mexican organized crime to lose more than 60% of their income and the established distribution channels for marijuana that they run most of their other drugs through. I don’t see us legalizing marijuana anytime soon though. It will probably happen eventually and as the years go on after it is legalized we’ll end up kicking ourselves for not having done it a lot sooner.