I guess the way I see it, the drugs are incidental. Historically they haven't been, and for now the mix of drugs is changing - less weed, more opiates and meth

I guess the way I see it, the drugs are incidental. Historically they haven't been, and for now the mix of drugs is changing - less weed, more opiates and meth - but I don't think just getting rid of the drug war would end gang life in Chicago. Let me be clear that I think the drug war is a terrible idea for a million reasons and should be ended tomorrow, or like, yesterday. But I don't think its end would be the end of gangs in places like Chicago, where the supply of young men is abundant and has no other alternative. Gangs will just find some other criminal activity, as the cartels themselves have started to do.