Ir drugs were legalized and regulated these cartels would be out of business. The cartels and drug enforcement agencies are united in not wanting that to happen.
If just pot were legalized, the resulting tax revenues might create a surplus, and the economy would be stimulated with a new, highly popular industry. Then there would be the savings in law enforcement, both in terms of cash costs and human capital. But noooooo. It has to stay illegal because it has to stay illegal because it has to stay illegal.
Along with trial lawyers, parole officers, drug councilors,etc etc cause they all make good money riding that horse.
No they won’t. They just move on to other crimes, home invasion, kidnapping for ransom, human and arms smuggling, extortion, terrorist smuggling, espionage.
Who knows if some other evil would come on the scene if drug dealing were not an issue. Maybe today’s would be evildoers would mostly be too stoned to do any harm.