In the article The political economy of Mexico’s drug war written by Helen Redmond there is a quote she included from Dr. Arturo Valenzuela Zorrilla, “The whole world has a bad strategy for fighting drugs... this is a health problem, not a criminal problem.” She supports this by providing the ideas of Dr. Viniegra. Prohibition was one way that the US tried to battle drug use but that backfired terribly. Prohibition made the drug market a prominent part of the international consumer markets. In a study for the CATO Institute, Jeffrey A. Miron and Katherine Waldock focused on the effects of the legalization of drugs and its effects. “Legalization would reduce state and federal deficits by eliminating expenditure on prohibition enforcement
