The cartels are slaughtering each other over market share in the drug trade, so clearly there is the incentive to seek new markets. If smuggling terrorists were extremely lucrative, they would already be doing it.
There is simply nothing as profitable for them as contraband marijuana. Why not deprive them of it?
You really don’t pay much attention to what’s going on in the world do you. For one thing, they’re already smuggling islamic illegals into the country at many times the price they can get for a gardener.
any time you take one product out of black market control, another pops up. In west Africa as the UN gets control of the illegal diamond market, they have simply moved into smuggling other things. Charcoal has been surprisingly lucurative. Poaching is another old standby for africa.
Making things legal doesn’t make problems go away and I support decriminalization of Marijuana. However I don’t live with the fantasy that it will fix anything other than to stop filling prisons with nonviolent offenders.