Mexico's drug war takes growing toll on Americans

This is so simple to solve. Make a harmless herb legal. You take the legality away, then you take away the crime.

This is essentially no different then when we had prohibition. Except marijuana is harmful like alcohol.

Then you can stop sending $billions to countries to stop the transportation of pot. This should have been legalized decades ago. < :-)

Then you can stop sending $billions to countries to stop the transportation of pot.

Good idea. Also, USA invaded Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan etc, etc, for less than this.

No, adaydream, it is not that simple. Legalize pot? Why the narrow focus? That`s only one drug. How about heroin, cocaine, and meth? There is way more money in these than pot, so should we legalize that too? And human trafficing, cannot forget the cartels make extra bucks doing that. Do you really think the cartels care what they sell? They are not users, they are sellers. They want money. Period. Legalizing one will stop nothing when the other three continue to sell.