I call what is going on in Chicago the result of abdication of governance. They have generations of drug gangs there as a direct result of drug prohibition. When the government prohibits something it abdicates its authority to regulate that product. There are no regulations in the illegal drug business and as a result criminals regulate the industry, often using violence and turning out a terrible, dangerous product free of any safeguards or standards. If someone steals your illegal drugs or sells you bad drugs you don't have any legal recourse. Drug dealers don't pay taxes. What we need is to legalize and regulate mindfully all drugs.

We see CVS and Walgreens selling their legal opiates across the street from one another without their employees ever having a shootout. The drugs they sell are clearly labeled and free of foreign substances, they don't substitute fentanyl for heroin.

But drugs were prohibited as a means of racial suppression, in terms of that goal drug prohibition is a government policy that is very successful in keeping the poor and minorities down.

You are totally correct in your comment :

Not a course of action that is likely to pay off in this world. Dead people don't win shit in court...