As a former Chicago drug prosecutor, I know that the war on drugs is a failure. Drug prohibition is the most effective means to put more dangerous drugs uncontrolled and unregulated everywhere, and the war on drugs is the heart of most American crises: guns, gangs, crime, violence, addiction, overdose cases, unaffordable health care with bullet holes in uninsured drug dealers, police corruption, kid corruption, prisons instead of schools, informant law enforcement ("tell me who sold you these drugs or you're going to jail forever"), trade imbalance, funding terrorism, racist discrimination in arrest and incarceration of drug users... The War on Drugs is Public Enemy No. 1. End the drug war!

All of you drug addicted people of the US are part of the problem...

Why are they driving across the US? They need to get their butts down to Mexico City and protest. What the heck are the blowhards in DC going to do about problems in that third would socialist state south of the border? They cant even fix problems north of the border, such as in Chicagoland. The Mexican people need to get to work fixing their own problems and stop running from them or waiting for the US to do it.

Mexico's gruesome civil war is clearly a product of the failed policy of Prohibition. Alcohol Prohibition was a tremendous failure due to the incredible amount of crime and disorder it created. Human nature hasn't changed since the 1920s when the distribution of liquor was turned over to a whole new group of criminal entrepreneurs. Drug Prohibition has turned Mexico into a civil war zone. Dangerous mind altering substances are again being manufactured, smuggled and sold by criminals. Our intentions in prohibiting these substances may well be good but the result of our inability to recognize the futility of such an action will both deepen and prolong the agony caused by this extremely counter-productive and dangerous policy. The future depends on whether or not enough of us are willing to take a long look at the tragic results of prohibition. If we continue to skirt the primary issue while refusing to address the root problem then we can expect no other result than a worsening of the current dire situation. Good intentions, wishful thinking and pseudoscience are no match for the immutable realities of human nature.

if they are victims of the mexican drug wars they are in the wrong country. they need to be in mexico where the drug war is.

They need to drive down to their capital and tell their President.

Officials have been telling the public in the US that only drug gangs are dying. I guess you can't believe everything that is being reported.