WTF. This isn't 1989. The two drugs are meth and fentanyl. This is so inaccurate I don't even know where to start. You can buy Marijuana in a store on the west coast as easy as a beer - the cartels have moved on. There is zero money in Marijuana. Cocaine was taken over by the Dominican Republic ten years ago. Cocaine takes actual agriculture - the cartels are no longer interested in mass slow farming competing with 3rd world producers.
>Cocaine of Colombian origin supplies most of the U.S. market, and most of that supply is trafficked through Mexico,
>In 2017, Mexico seized 421 metric tons of marijuana and eradicated more than 4,230 hectares of marijuana, according to the State Department’s 2019 INCSR. However, some analysts foresee a decline in U.S. demand for Mexican marijuana because drugs “other than marijuana” will likely become dominant in the future. This projection relates to more marijuana being grown legally in several states in the United States and Canada, which have either legalized cannabis or made it legal for medical purposes, thus decreasing its value as part of Mexican trafficking organizations’ profit portfolio.
However, the same report indicates I underestimated the relevance of heroin coming via Mexico. In this case, poppy production in Mexico has increased in recent years, so apparently "actual agriculture" is still not too much work for the cartels.
Unfortunately, opioid use is a much more difficult question, due to the "laser-like" effect of opioids: the capacity for non-drug pleasure is slowly degraded[1] and users may not notice until it's too late, similar to the way that the visual cortex will try to correct for laser damage until the retina is irredeemable. Decriminalizing any opioids comes with significant risk, since they are easily the deadliest sort of drugs.
Instead, approaches similar to that currently applied in the Netherlands may be more fruitful. A bright spot is that medical cannabis seems to decrease the likelihood of opioid prescriptions, which narrows the medicine-to-streets pipeline.
WTF. This isn't 1989. The two drugs are meth and fentanyl. This is so inaccurate I don't even know where to start. You can buy Marijuana in a store on the west coast as easy as a beer - the cartels have moved on. There is zero money in Marijuana. Cocaine was taken over by the Dominican Republic ten years ago. Cocaine takes actual agriculture - the cartels are no longer interested in mass slow farming competing with 3rd world producers.