[Mind-numbed Robot]

Although I am against drug use, legalizing their use would take the immense profit out of it and neutralize the drug thugs.

[Charlespg]

I agree with you ,but its more complicated than that.Mexico is a country with almost no middle class,and long history of corruption. if my father was right he said that about 10 of the population owned 90% of the wealth/p>

[Force of Truth]

Although I am against drug use, legalizing their use would take the immense profit out of it and neutralize the drug thugs.

Correct. But, because of the more effective and safer anit-inflammatory effects of marijuana, the real drug dealers, the pharmacists, will have to find a better way to deal with pain medication than opioids, and those from the left and the right who control our police state are not about to let that happen.

[Ajnin]

Although I am against drug use, legalizing their use would take the immense profit out of it and neutralize the drug thugs.

I disagree. Legalizing drugs would make the cartels even more wealthy, more powerful and more violent. Legalizaing drugs would undoubtedly increase the use. They would make more money simply from having more volume. The cartels could reinvest the large sums of money they spend on laundering and security on corrupting more government officials. These people that run the cartels are violent for the most part because they like violence. The money, power and most certainly the violence isn't going to go away by legalizing anything.