Markets are created by products. Not the other way around. Without a product there is no market. The astounding growth of the illegal drug trade creates its own market. Without that production there is no market. If unicorns are not available they will not be sold. Find a pair of unicorns pooping skittles and dancing on rainbows and your fortune is made.
Respectfully disagree. When there is demand you will get supply. Our nation has a massive demand for narcotics and we CANNOT blame that on any other nation. The American medical industry has done their part as well with pharmaceutical driven pain management that led to the opiod addiction of millions.
The cartels were created because of our demand for dope and the profits they made supplying it. I am not pro-legalization for hard narcotics, but when a nation makes a product illegal to manufacture, but hands out needles to addicts and tolerates drug use with porous borders do you not see a problem?
Mexico is not blameless, but this is a multifaceted problem. Blaming them while ignoring our own culpability is not intellectually honest.