I don’t follow your reasoning. Drug cartels like Los Zetas exist because drugs like cocaine are illegal, just like the rum-runners did during prohibition.
Nobody would willingly go to Al Capone for a bottle of wine when it was freely available at every corner market.
Not much reasoning. Just imagining a hypothetical situation where two people in Los Zetas’ good books are granted impunity because the judge is paid off!
Maybe Drugs just won the Drug War
We lost the War on Drugs the second we deluded ourselves into thinking drugs were a thing that we could wage a war against. It was a tremendous act of hubris from the get-go, especially considering we already had Prohibition as a clear example of how well the effort was likely to unfold.
Mexico City judge Víctor Octavio says ‘the drug conveys benefits such as “tension relief, the intensification of perceptions and the desire [to have] new personal and spiritual experiences.”’
I’m telling myself that the lawyer and judge murdering drug cartel had no influence here.
You don’t really need to imagine instances of impunity through corruption associated with the drug war. It’s just not typically doled out to end users, exclusively and conditionally for their own personal use without promotion or distribution.