the "War On Drugs" is really "Right Wing Ongoing Disaster"

Regarding the recent Washington Post article on El Senior (Guzman):
‘El Chapo,’ wanted drug lord, grows stronger in Mexico’s Sierra Madre

Having visited Juarez mexico is safer times (1970's) as a college studen buying inexpensive alcohol, it is haunting to see what the combined US/Mexico drug "industry" has wrought.

I recently read "Murder City": a bit of an incoherent rambling, but heart-breaking in its core message. skim it for yourself.

I am in my 50's. It will probably take another generation before any acceptable solution is found for this "war on drugs" and the "drug wars". thanks to progressive liberals like me, there will be recreational drug users like me. thanks to conservative fundamentalists, there will be no progress on drug laws to legalize, tax, and under-cut the organized criminals engaged in this industry.

so the "War On Drugs" -- which should be renamed to "status quo disaster" -- will continue to recruit young people looking to maximize their incomes and have them end up murdered. Nancy Regan told us to "just say no". I tell you: "just demand progress, and not more of the same unworkable tactics". Then people like El Senior Guzman will just fade away, and the tombstones will stop piling up.

I may not see this solution in my lifetime. Us old "sticks in the mud" must first die off to allow younger minds to bury us and make progress. Good luck kids; keep your minds open and thinking about alternate solutions. They say insanity is "doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome". There is the "War On Drugs"; over and over and over....