After complaining about how ignored the drugs wars in Mexico have been in Big Media, I stupidly misssed a recent, pretty complete look at the issue in Rolling Stone. It even addresses the notion (really the only solution) of legalizing heroin/cocaine/marijuana. But regulated and taxed, as alcohol is now.
It would stop the war in Mexico, but, ironically, it would also hurt their economy by putting a lot of growers out of business. The Small Wars Journal is hosting a discussion on legalization. But we’ll have to wait for a pol with the guts to advocate it, let alone get it passed. Meanwhile, if the rest of Big Media wants to look more relevant than it does now, it should turn its attention to the war on our own borders–though, of course, it would involve actual work and real danger for the two phone call gang.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
I will be really hard put to cry about the hardship expecting the growers.
Once legal, with licenses required for growers, they might manage to stay in business. And the lawmen would still have work, what with illegal fields to swoop down on.