There is no denying that death and violence are a by-product of the drug "industry" such as it exists today. When I lived in the Pacific Northwest the Forest Service and the Park Service and other government entities were always busting growing operations out on public land, and they approached them VERY cautiously due to the potential violence from the growers and those they hire to guard the stuff. I worked in the woods in the 1970s and 80s and it used to be that we were careful not to startle poachers or cedar thieves. That has largely changed.

Were such drugs legal there would be standardization, there would be less side effect from pesticides and herbicides, and it would take the thunder and violence out of the current growers.

It probably wouldn't be treated like tobacco and receive huge federal support in subsidies. Now THAT'S obscene!

SRS