S. Mexico border with each cartel trying to control as much of the market as possible. It will be a magnification of what is currently experienced in the drug deals. Factually, criminals will not stop being criminals because a drug has been legalized and start be law abiding citizens, paying their taxes and upholding moral standards within the society. This is in light of the fact that the drug dealers don't deal in drugs due to the challenge of making a proper sale but because that is what makes them more money and they will not change just because it is now legal.

Apparently the legalization of drugs will lead to more organized gang crimes like those in Mexico. These are battles on whether Mexico will be governed by the rule of law or by the gun. There should be steps to reduce the killings along the border rather than legalizing the trade. The war in Mexico is a struggle to control illegal money hence legalizing drug use will not make much change.

The drug related violence in Mexico is also proven to be a battle to control major drug routes into and out of Mexico rather than a struggle for market and distribution routes. This means that the legalization of the drug use will not make any difference in the violence as the supply will increase hence more violence to have control of the routes and territories.

It is also a wrong presumption that the drug related violence will suddenly disappear if marijuana use is legalized. There are a bunch of other drugs out there from which money is to be made. The traffickers will strengthen their grasp on such drugs to cover up for the lost market niche in marijuana hence a counter-productive measure.

Marijuana is a dangerous and mind altering drug with the effects becoming worse with each passing year of use. Taking marijuana leads to addiction and the consequent severe results. Legalizing such drugs will be tantamount to exposing larger populations to such dangers. The other drugs like meth, heroin, cocaine and so on have even worse consequences and leading to death often. Legalization of such will be a predisposition of more people to death and possible addictions with the results that are not admirable in any way (Drug Enforcement Administration, 2013).

Narco-terrorists and drug cartels

Narco-terrorism: This is a term that came into being in the early 1980s and is largely associated...

This has since evolved and taken more definitions onboard as the problem of drug violence became more pronounced.
According to Target America (2013), the DEA describes narco-terrorism as organized groups intentionally bent towards drug trafficking in order be able to undertake or to finance premeditated and politically linked violence that is directed against noncombatant subjects with an ultimate aim of influencing the decisions of the government. It is also used to mean a kind of terrorism in which terrorist groups participate in the cultivation, manufacture as well as market distribution of drugs with an aim of gathering money. Some of the known groups of narco-terrorists are FARC in Colombia, IRA in Ireland and PKK in Turkey among others.

Drug Cartels: are, on the other hand, organized groups that are out to control the production and distribution of drugs without necessarily having a political connection or purpose as is the case with narco-terrorism (Steven J.S., 1998). Their sole purpose is to have ease access to the means or production and making money from drugs. These cartels range from loosely connected group of people to very intricate and complex organized groups. It is however worth noting that such cartels can still get intertwined with the politics of the country since they may want to use the money they have to get access to political favors and control as well as skirt the law.