Busy little diggers.
If pot was legalized nationwide all these drug runners would do is switch to cocaine and heroin. From the sound of things they already have switched to heroin.
Drug runners can't create demand by sheer force of will.
Drug runners follow demand, not the other way around. If you legalize and don’t overtax, nobody will buy a gram from them.
Heroin has become popular again purely due to the DEA crackdown on Rx opiates. Now more junkies will end up clogging our hospitals because they are shooting Mexican tar instead of the cleaner Rx drugs.