“The Journal blames a significant portion of Mexico’s quandary on the growing demand for illegal narcotics in the United States. Many of the Mexican drug cartels would not exist, were it not for the insatiable appetite for illegal drugs north of the border.”

That’s a load of manure. NONE of the Mexican drug cartels EVER would have sprung into existence if it weren’t for Washington’s bogus “War on Drugs” and the draconian laws the pols have enacted in order to fight their bogus “War on Drugs.”

Legalization of drug use would cut the ground from under the Mexican cartels and put them out of business overnight. Legalization won’t happen, however, because legalization would also cut off a significant source of funding for the CIA’s covert (and mostly illegal) operations at home and abroad. Legalization would also deprive corrupt American narco-goon squads (aka DEA, BATF, etc.) of the money they make selling impounded “evidence” illegally on the streets. The so-called “law enforcement community” is therefore strictly against legalization.

You guys who make a living writing about this stuff need to start telling it like it is. Until you do, the cartels will thrive by doing what organized criminals always do. Prohibition doesn’t work because prohibition is contrary to human nature. That’s not a politically partisan statement, either. It’s just a fact that American journalism ought to get used to.

Don’t drive in Mexico and you are pretty safe.