If marijuana and other drugs were legalized, there wouldn't be drug lords with private armies to begin with. They would disappear just like American mobsters at the end of Prohibition.
afterburner clearly understands this. His point is that in the US drug war, it is the government of the United States that is the main antagonist. This is not the case in with the ongoing violence in Mexico.
My point is that drug prohibition remains the root cause. Even in America, most of the actual harm is done by gangsters rather than the government. And yes, I'm aware that organized crime still exists in the United States, but not to nearly the same extent as during alcohol prohibition.
No they wouldn't, they'd still be there but in far less number. Legal weed is expensive, there will always be $20/8th alternatives out there from mexico to compete with $60/8th legal stuff.
It will be no different than it is in california. Adults buy the legal stuff, and unemployed people and highschool kids buy the mexican stuff.
