We created the damn cartels in the first place with our insatiable demand for their products. The current model is designed to create crime from end to end. An

We created the damn cartels in the first place with our insatiable demand for their products. The current model is designed to create crime from end to end. And it was never about safety (FFS, look at how people who are busted for using drugs are treated). Humans like having altered states and there will always be a market for that. There are risks and dangers in that but they can be mitigated. I'll trot out the classic counterpoint to the current madness: alcohol and tobacco are legal and sanctioned but we know they're dangerous and kill over half a million US citizens per year. Again, if you think it's about safety you are mistaken: it's about oppression and control and it's ruining this country as well as our neighbors to the south.