What to do about the US, Mexico border war?

[SamuelRSmith]

HappySqurriel said:

I could be wrong but I suspect that legal drugs would have strict limits on potency and very high taxes resulting in a good environment for black market goods.

Yeah, you're obviously right about that. But in my crazy scenario where the Government actually does the right thing and legalizes drugs, it does the whole-hog thing and just lets the market regulate it self. Let's be honest, at this stage, both scenarios are entirely impossible. The only thing we might, might, see in the next 5 years is some kind of decriminalization of marijuana at the Federal level... with most states keeping it illegal in most cases.