“Security experts agree that the law’s practical impact on violence will likely be minimal: With 15 American states having now legalized marijuana, they argue, the crop has become a relatively small part of the Mexican drug trafficking business, with cartels focusing on more profitable products like fentanyl and methamphetamines.” NYT: Mexico Set to Legalize Marijuana, Becoming World’s Largest Market. (Legalizing pot when it’s no longer a big profit center for cartels is just another reminder that the drug war has been one of human history’s most epic and deadly failures.)