Please note that your "unfettered capitalism", divorced from morality exists here only in the context of a moralistic, outright ban on trade. So lets fight tha

Please note that your "unfettered capitalism", divorced from morality exists here only in the context of a moralistic, outright ban on trade. So lets fight that daemon capitalism by freeing trade! If these marijuana results show that reducing prohibition removes a revenue stream from the crime lords, then we can expect ending prohibition will hit them even harder. Perhaps enough to relly reduce lawlessness in Mexico as well as the US. It's tautologically true that organised criminals will always do criminal work is profitable; but they gangs can be small or large, powerful or weak. It seems they are powerful in Mexico because prohibition cedes most of the US drug market to them.