No money, no political power. Drug lords' biggest fear is the legal sale of narcotics in drugstores. When illegal, untaxed profit is removed from the drug trade, there is no incentive to remain in business. Gone then would be the drug lords, the dealers and biker gangs. Cocaine would rot in the Amazon jungle and bundles of marijuana would slowly blow away in the Mexican desert.
Legalization is the only alternative our world can afford.
No, Ms. Kertzman, legalization will not make the drug lords stronger. What it will do is go a long way in solving your country's problems with outlaws.