How the Latin American Drug War Will End
• truth-out.orgAs the underlying rationale for the war on drugs falls apart, some may wonder whether Latin America is really prepared to push back against Washington’s militaristic approach toward marijuana trafficking.
Maybe the Mexican cartels have already joined Washington in looking for active ways to support the war on drugs. After all, the cartels would be out of business if everyone could grow or manufacture their own.
The point is, there are multitudes of people on the take from the drug war. If you shut the war down, you just might have to release all those people from prison who were sent there for tiny drug related convictions. It's tens or hundreds of thousands. That would be income lost for those businesses who supply the prisons. Besides, what about bringing all those people back into a society that doesn't even have enough jobs for the people not in prisons.
If you think about it for awhile, there are all kinds of reasons to continue the drug war from an economical standpoint.