[bruiseralmighty]

This is hyperopic viewpoint.

Because it would only remove the violence in our neighborhood and not the violence 1000s of miles away. This plan is not worth pursuing.

We can grant everything you said that the Silk Road may have only reduced violence in our immediate vicinity. That is still a huge success that should have been continued. Its not a failure for only reducing local violence.

That local win could have grown more globalized acceptance; reducing the niche cartels fill. Even if it had merely encouraged greater local production of illegal drugs that alone could have reduced cartel violence in Mexico.