Truth or BS ?

Yes, American policy regarding drugs is stupid and something needs to change. This will take time if it ever happens. The Mexican government, state and local governments need to immediately get to work putting an end to this violence, before it kills any more people and completely destroys the economy of Zihuatanejo. Ignoring what's going on and fixating on keeping dogs off the beaches is unbelievable bullshit.

Except that over 40 years of a failed policy that has only caused hundreds of thousands of deaths as well as immeasurable misery and violence demonstrates quite clearly that this isn't a problem the Mexican government can fix alone. Even if they put a militarized cop on every street corner nothing would change until the CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM changed, and that cause isn't corrupt or inept politicians in Mexico. It's the tens of millions of U.S. consumers who must purchase their product in a black market created by the failed policy. We may be able to chase the bad guys around from one place to another, but they simply have more money than any government does, including the U.S. government with its trillion dollar military and plethora of alphabet soup "secret" agencies and all their technology.

So tell me, after over 40 years of a policy being failed, how much more time will it take before overpaid politicians get around to fixing it? In this respect at least Mexico is entertaining some radical changes such as legalizing the production of heroin since that is where the big money is right now thanks to the whims of U.S. consumers. While in the USA the best the government can do is continue classifying pot as being as dangerous as heroin! That is unacceptable! THAT is what corruption looks like! Bought and sold by private prisons, Big Alcohol and Big Pharma and all those juicy billion dollar budgets for fun toys and bureaucracies like the DEA.