Pot is a money maker, too.
As for cocaine and heroin, legalizing it and selling it at the local Quickie mart could create more problems than it solves. Decriminalizing it and treating addiction as a medical, not a legal, problem could go a long way toward diminishing our out of control drug abuse. Again, criminalizing something does not end it, but only drives it underground.
Illegal immigration is a separate, but related problem. No, amnesty is not the solution, as we discovered the last time it was tried. There needs to be a national ID card, one that is difficult to counterfeit, and that has to be presented when getting employment, enrolling kids in school, or using any other tax supported institution. Then there needs to be a path to legal immigration that starts not in the US, but in the nations from which most of the illegals are coming, Mexico and Central America. That way, the illegals would have to go home and stand in line with the rest of their countrymen, then be vetted to screen out felons and gang bangers, and then come here openly.
Of course, there would be huge opposition to such a plan, mostly from employers of illegals. There would be loud voices calling a national ID card big brother in action, when the real agenda is to keep illegal labor illegal and therefore cheap. It would be very difficult to pass such a thing politically. It is a lot easier to build a big expensive ineffective fence and pretend we're doing something about illegal immigration.
