Comment by ASalazarMX

And not only that, the American pressure for other states to do the same makes the problem bigger instead of smaller. It should be evident that it doesn't work, because the same system creates opportunities: when they take a drug dealer, another one pops out in their place, when they make it harder to traffic heroin, opiates or other drugs take its place.

I certainly don't want hard drugs to run unchecked in Mexico, where I live, but fostering a black market is not the solution either.