Deductively it is rational to estimate high profit margins are associated by limited supply and high demand. The USA “war on drugs” has been worse than a huge waste of lives and money — it has fueled the growth of cartels and the misery they introduce … making a bad situation worse. The demand for illegal drugs by the United States and other western countries goes unabated. The “drug war” simply creates higher risks and more cartels with still higher profits. The idea that psychologically healthy society or culture (individual or collective basis) is innocently and non-contextually lured into drug (addiction) use is ludicrous. Lives, true innocents, economies and whole societies are being ravaged due in part to a American cultural inability to deal deeply and systemically with a complex problem with a calm, introspective and multifaceted approach. Sad. Mexico is unsafe due in substantial part because of the US.