Mexico and the war on Drugs

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/03/AR2008120303953.html?hpid=topnews

This war is fueled by the USA on both sides. We buy the illegal drugs funding all the gangs and fund the government to wage war on the cartels. No end is in sight. Combined with massive budgets that will be forced on the US you can expect the cartels to win unless we legalize drugs. What would this do? Bring the money out from the illegal world. Allow legitimate business to control the markets. Tax the hell out of the drugs. All you have to do is look at Prohibition and how it ended to see what would happen once we end the war drugs.