[brent13a]

The cartels will simply shift their focus to the remaining illegal drugs.

So what does piecemeal legalization of one drug solve exactly if it doesn't get rid of the violence, corruption, and death?

[Cementjungle]

So what does piecemeal legalization of one drug solve exactly if it doesn't get rid of the violence, corruption, and death?

Nothing really.

[Eleutheria5]

So why cure cancer, if you can’t eliminate death? It solves one thing: Pot trafficking, and that portion of the violence, corruption and death caused by it. It also eliminates a portion of the demand for the hard drugs, just as legalizing liquor eliminated a portion of the demand for wood alcohol and moonshine. Moonshine still is made and sold, but it’s a marginal industry now. There are no magic solutions. There are policies that mitigate problems, and policies that exacerbate them.