I lived in Veracruz Mexico for a year, I love Mexico but it has huge problems in many ways the drug problem is one of the least of them. Like you say they have long standing economic and socail inequality built into the system.

It will be odd because those drug dealers have so much money will they now enter the picture, be able to invest in the system, be taxed. I am not sure how this can work, it is such an odd concept to me that the U.S. Would give up on the war on drugs if so it is an amazing step in our own development as a nation. The Rand Corporationâ??s own papers some up the War on drugs "Evidence is typically lost in this debate." That is in their own words. So long we have not listened to the evidence. Several of their papers have said that we have been going about this in the wrong way. Odd seeing how we so often listen to them.

So this is a move in the right direction, but what is our next step? What is Mexico's next step? They have been at war are parties going to talk peace or does this just all fade into the past like this never happened. The Mexican Narco Cartels are into some really messed up stuff one must understand Los Zetaâ??s to understand the depths that they will sink to make money. Does this mean we stop flushing tons of cash down the toilet. And here is an even more odd question what do we do about drug addiction, do we have programs to give drugs to people who are drug sick, or do they still keep getting their product from drugs being pushed up from the border? Many questions but if it does end we have grown a little bit as a nation.