When will people on the right and left learn from history. Prohibition does not work!! It did not work for alcohol and it has not worked for drugs. We throw billions of dollars away annually in the "War on Drugs" and it has achieved nothing! People fear drugs and rightfully so. They destroy lives if abused. However it has been proven that legalization does not lead to mass usage in society. Other countries have successfully legalized drugs and have the same rate of addiction among their citizens as those that continue to keep them illegal.
If we legalize drugs, the profitability for the cartels and the drug gangs in the US would disappear overnight and soon thereafter would the violence caused by the cartels and gangs.