For the past four decades, our leaders have tried working within the current laws to stop the flow of drugs. Unfortunately it hasn’t worked. Nothing exists within the current paradigm to combat the drug trade by traditional means of arrest and prosecution. The next logical step is extrajudicial military action and summary execution. Really we should be replacing the governments of these narco-states with viceroys until the problem is under control (and execute the former leaders who act in conjunction with cartels).