[sbov]

Legalizing drugs is the best thing the US could do with respect to the cartels. Not only would it reduce profits, it would give producers an arbiter to go to when there are disputes rather than forcing them to rely on their own version of justice.

[masonic]

California's legalization has shown this to be untrue. Cartel grows in public lands have exploded as the legal market provides general cover for grow and transport activities. There is an estimated 16 times as much cannabis grown in CA than traverses the legal markets... and that excludes imports.