[TKDietz]

“No, But they wouldn’t have access to thousands or maybe millions of dollars that they do now from supplying drugs that are currently illegal.”

Collectively these organizations are actually raking in many billions of dollars a year from Americans. Our government estimates that Mexican drug trafficking organizations supply Americans several thousand tons of marijuana every year and several hundred tons of other drugs. There are ridiculous sums of money being made. That's why we keep reading about corruption on both sides of the border, gun battles over smuggling routes, the use of well armed mercenaries like we read about in this article, and so on. The amount of money to be made is mind boggling. People are getting rich in the drug trade and they'll stop at nothing to keep the money rolling in and/or increase their share of the pie.

[thinkthenpost]

I basically agree with everything in your post, living in El Paso, your comments about doing anything to keep what they have are on display with over 1100 murders in Juarez year to date. It is also why I maintain legalize everything now, and if you OD unless you prepay when you get to the hospital, no resuscitation, harsh I know, but I liken it to the comment earlier about purging the gene pool.