You don’t need guns to kill the Cartels. You need to legalize drigs and regulate them. The war on drugs is what made the cartels what they are today.

That’s a naive view. Do you think cartels will dismiss themselves at that point? Or that mobs will somehow become lawful citizens?

Also, do you think there is a positive scenario of consuming cocaine or opiates?

You’re joking right? Or you’re a kid? Opiates are some of the most important drugs in global medicine, have been for a century and probably will be for another.

Even Cocaine has numerous medical uses today.

Medical professionals already have access to it.

Everyone should have legal access to these drugs. These drugs being illegal just increases the harm caused, we know how the drug war goes. Going to war in Mexico is only going to make problems around these drugs worse.

Everyone should have legal access to these drugs.

Are you serious? We’re talking about coke and opiates! Not some weed and shrooms.

And by the way: I don’t support war intervention. My point is that legalisation of these drugs won’t make cartels disappear, but will cause immense harm.

I just think what it takes to forcefully keep these drugs from everyone is worse than the problems the drugs themselves create. I can get opiates if I wanted but I choose not to. Pretty sure people get addicted to illegal opiates mostly after a painful medical situation or from living in a desperate hopeless situation. Healthy people with opportunity don’t very often decide to risk their lives for high when there are other alternatives available.

I’ve done coke at parties with friends or in Vegas or whatever several times over the decades since I was young, never been addicted and my life was not ruined and I could say the same for many of my friends who have gone on to have families and jobs etc. But my life very much could’ve been ruined had I been arrested for it.