Costco

Making drugs illegal doesn’t prevent people from using them, the demand is still there and someone will fill it. It just inflates the prices because of the layers and dangers involved with importing the drugs, there is no tax revenue, and the money eventually leaves the country instead of being recirculated like a normal economy.

The best thing the US could do to fight the cartels would be to legalize and regulate the drug trade. Take away their massive funding source.