In Mexico, since the administration of Jose Calderon declared its war on drugs, 85,000 people have been killed. This is the true cost of the war on drugs, a war that enhances the profits of the cartels and allows them to hire more militants. Jose Calderon’s aggressive approach in combating the cartels, murder rates spiked in the region, with the end result seemingly similar to prior the war, albeit with a lot more dead. The United States has combated this same issue, and the result has been a 790 percent spike in the federal prison population from 1980 to 2010. As well, the federal government has spent over 1 trillion dollars trying to fix the issue, to no avail, as there has been no proof that the distribution and consumption of drugs has
