The conventional wisdom is that 50,000 people have been killed recently in the Mexican Drug Wars.

the people that run our planet sure don't give a rats ass about their fellow human beings, or else they'd stop the insanity.

Do these pin heads know nothing about the history of prohibitions and the organized crime consequences?

Root Question: Why is the demand for drugs in America so strong? What is it with us that we need all these drugs just to get through life?

-90% Jimmy

I have my views. "Our" politicians and political party (corptocracy), benefits greatly from prohibition. I believe that campaign coffers are full of drug lord money, especially in the border states. Also federal coffers.
Add that to contributions from the growing private prison industrial complex, CIA mule money and the money that the courts rake in ( probation, what a privatized scam), there is so much money generated from prohibition and funneled to politicians that I am sure that I don't know half of it.
As for the demand in America? We have become a Fascist country. IMO, in the 60's through early 80's most young people used drugs for entertainment and socialization. I believe that now, most drug use among the non-wealthy, is self medicating, to escape the realities of our lives. We are slaves. In retrospect, it was probably much the same in the 60's and 80's for many people. The suffering was just not as widespread.
We watched this happen to Russian society, we are now in our death throes. Greed is the reason.

I like to think of the root cause of stuff. The best definition of the root cause of our invisible glacier-like but accelerating into the reborn Dark Ages state of affairs is simply this classic George Carlin Video. Gets right to the nucleus of the problem in concise rapier-like keen intelligent reasoned fashion.

you have to be asleep to believe it....