I’ll give you a simple, straight answer to your question - as soon as you do the same for mine.
Drug dealers are for the most part, the scum of the earth profiting from the desperation, addiction and hopelessness of their customers, cartels eliminate their competition by murdering them and are protected by the governments they have corrupted. Los Zetas have branched out into supplying iron ore but still use the same techniques to stifle competition.
You think pot doesn’t kill? In 1982, shortly after I went on salary, I was called in the middle of the night due to a mine accident. An underground locomotive operator had run through a red block light hitting the rear of another train. The other train’s operator was in front of his train throwing a switch. The collision cut him in half. Not something you want to see, particularly if you know the man. The motorman who ran the block light told me he didn’t see it, he was “floating”. The only drug found in his drug test was thc.
The drug war is a war against criminal enterprises. If it’s not drugs, it will be something else. Might as well keep drugs expensive and a little risky to get. I really don’t think anyone has a right to a chemical high. Booze is bad enough.