In Calgary, drug shootouts have killed at least one bystander; I haven't checked into the number of drug gang members killed. These dealers are citizens of Canada, not Mexican; many are Asian in origin. The same thing is happening in most cities across the U. S. and Canada; home-grown gangs and citizens, not illegals. Nothing on the scale of Mexico, but appalling just the same.

Increasing amounts of drugs are made in dangerous labs in homes and business tracts.

Our drug laws are designed to make drug suppliers rich and continue the carnage. Legalizing, followed by setting up effective treatment and education centers, would be a first, important step.

Effective treatment of addicts in a joke in many areas, where incarceration in prison is the main prescription.