The border patrol has no business in Greektown. Or Lansing. Or Gladwin. Yet our current laws say they do.
https://www.aclu.org/other/constitut...le-border-zone
The local police force are the ones who should be there. And they should be there.
Regarding drugs, be glad it's pot and not something else. Alcohol is probably a bigger problem. I credit the popularization of pot over crack as a huge part of the decrease in crime since its peak [[during the crack epidemic) in the late 80's and early 90's. Take it from someone who witnessed the crack epidemic too close.
Just legalize pot. And heavily control it. And let people eat brownies and gum drops instead of destroying their lungs.
Compare pot vs crack, vs heroin, vs opiods, vs meth, vs PCP, vs all its alternatives and pot is clearly the far lesser evil.
Chinese "synthetic marijuana" / "K2" is no better than bath salts and way worse than pot. It is as dangerous as crack to the user. But crack was worse: it also made its users so much more dangerous to everyone else.
33 Suspected of Overdosing on Synthetic Marijuana in Brooklyn
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/n...-brooklyn.html
Overdoses From ‘Dangerous Batch’ of K2 Grows to 56 in Brooklyn
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/n...-overdose.html
Don't Buy K2 At These Brooklyn Addresses, Police Say
https://patch.com/new-york/bushwick/...ses-police-say