Bingo. Bad is Bad and Bad will just change to a different revenue source. The drug cartel maybe the safest of all. As long as they can make money doing this business they will leave the avocado farmers, bus drivers, taco stands, etc. Alone.

From your lips to Gods ears.
It isn’t going to happen.

If drug trafficking ceases to be profitable, will not the cartels turn more towards other illegal activities–like extortion, human trafficking, kidnapping, armed robbery, etc? Removing the drug trade might make things LESS safe for us! These are not good guys; They are not going to go get “honest” jobs (that pay pitiful wages) if their money tree is taken away from them.

as my previous comment attributed too little scientific background about the use of intoxicants in humans I offer the important important information taken from the same website to which I cited: genomic evidence for natural selection consistent with sustained exposure to dietary ethanol in diverse taxa (including hominids and the genus Homo) over tens of millions of years.
(ncbi.nim.nih.gov)
NATURAL SELECTION consistent with tens of millions of years of the genus homo pretty much says we were naturally selected based on the consumption of intoxicants if you’ve read this far maybe you’ll be amazed at how intransigent the need to have altered states of reality is and why prohibition will always fail

Blue states are failing? You probably don’t know, or want to believe, that it’s the blue (donor) states that are carrying the red (taker) states but then again you probably don’t turn off Fox Spews long enough to do your own research.

nicely summarized,i believe the deep human need to alter our reality is ancient and inbred, “even bats, moose and birds eat copious amounts of fermented fruit the “drunken monkey” hypothesis posits that attraction to alcohol derives from an evolutionary linkage among the sugars of ripe fruit[alcoholic fermentation and consumption by human ancestors”(nih.gov). I would encourage reading the entire abstract from which I copiously quoted.

i agree, bradford one way to take control from the crims selling the illegal stuff is to legalize it yes that might be an overly simplistic solution but there is a lot of logic behind it like prohibition in the US from the 1920’s -30’s
and the”war on drugs” that followed they were massive failures the State cannot hope to exert its’ will on the peoples’ need for an escape from the pain of living.
bradford gilman imo

Blue state resident here. We aren’t failing. Educate yourself.