Letter: Mexico as narco state

The reason Mexico is becoming a narco state is due to America's ravenous appetite for drugs. Majority of which are brought into this country by US citizens at legal points of entry. There have been 10 Presidents since Nixon declared the war on drugs. It has gotten progressively worse, now about 100,000 deaths a year. We've tried draconian measures enacted in the 1980s to combat the Crack epidemic, it didn't work. Big Pharma pushed oxycontin, causing many addictions, no one went to jail. Prohibition showed outlawing a substance lead to the rise of organized crime in this country. I wish there was a magical solution to this problem but I'm not aware of one.