War on Some Drugs becoming much more unpopular among Latin American leaders

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3. Great Questions 90% Jimmy.

I have my views. "Our" politicians and political party (corptocracy), benefits greatly from prohibition. I believe that campaign coffers are full of drug lord money, especially in the border states. Also federal coffers.
Add that to contributions from the growing private prison industrial complex, CIA mule money and the money that the courts rake in ( probation, what a privatized scam), there is so much money generated from prohibition and funneled to politicians that I am sure that I don't know half of it.
As for the demand in America? We have become a Fascist country. IMO, in the 60's through early 80's most young people used drugs for entertainment and socialization. I believe that now, most drug use among the non-wealthy, is self medicating, to escape the realities of our lives. We are slaves. In retrospect, it was probably much the same in the 60's and 80's for many people. The suffering was just not as widespread.
We watched this happen to Russian society, we are now in our death throes. Greed is the reason.