At least Pope Francis is taking a tough stand.
I’m not quite sure it’s a tough stand. Sounds more like going with the flow to me.
I’ll bet politicians get quite some money from gangsters to keep drugs illegal. So going against that would be the tough stand, in Latin America or the US.
How is that tough? To support corruption and violence? How about holding people to their individual responsibility?
That's a tougher road - the weak look for Government to protect them "from themselves".