Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

End prohibition and it all ends instantly.
"Drug cartels" become "Farmers".
"Drug runners" become "Delivery Men"
and the "War on drugs" becomes "International Commerce".

Instead of wasting astronomical amounts of money and lives, no one has to die, and astronomical amounts of money come IN, instead of going out. And just as with cigarettes & alcohol, people who don't drink and don't smoke don't buy the product. Why this is turned into some sort of a "huge problem" is beyond me. The solution is simple.

If cigarettes were outlawed tomorrow, you know there would be "Cigarette Wars" and "Cigarette Cartels" springing up the same day. It's not the substance, it's the broken backwards law.