A little secret for you:
The cartels will always win because they operate globally outside of all laws & we’re trying to fight them from within the confines of a lawful civilization.
Legalizing drugs will not stop the encroachment of their lawlessness into our world. It will only hasten it.
If it’s easier to operate within the law, there will be no room for cartels. After all, where’s the cartel for rice or wheat?
Have you ever experienced any serious alcoholism cases? Nasty. Hard liquor should be banned also.
Which is why Calderon and Obama folded, and gave deed to Arizona to the Sinaloa Cartel.
How much does your department get from fedgov in terms of money and weapons to fight drugs?
Of course it won't. I never even hinted such a thing.
The only solution is to raise children to neither need nor want drugs. We cannot, however, prevent drugs from getting here. And turning the United States into a police state in an attempt to control drug-use causes more problems than it appears to have solved.