So, we should abandon the war on drugs and give the cartels license to do as they please in America? Because nobody “forced” anybody to buy their poison? Is that what you’re saying?
Why not simply follow the Constitution and let the states deal with intrastate regulation of drugs?
Cartels can force people to buy and use their products?
So, we should abandon the war on drugs and give the cartels license to do as they please in America? Because nobody “forced” anybody to buy their poison? Is that what you’re saying?
No, I'm saying that if pot is legalized the cartels can't "recover that lost revenue by increasing/improving their heroin/meth/coke trade" because they can't force people to buy and use their products.
And legalizing any drug (with non-excessive taxation) will not give the cartels license to do as they please, but will reduce to negligibility their involvement in that market - just as legalizing the drug alcohol reduced to negligibility the bootleggers' involvement in that market.