The United States of America is the top user country of illegal drugs.

Ask anyone that was involved in fighting the “War on Drugs” for a long time. They will tell you that reducing the number of drug users in the United States of America is the way to really hurt the illegal drug business. I don’t know enough to suggest how that could be done.

The United States of America is the top user country of illegal drugs. Reducing illegal drug use at the person to person level would have a real effect on the market for illegal drugs. It would reduce the violence and despair in our own country and also in the increasingly desperate situations in countries to our South. The violence there has become a war; a war not on drugs but a war between drug dealer armies and the police and armies of those countries. Thousands of people are caught in the crossfire.

SUR-13 members tried to make a connection here in Coatesville last year. I believe that the 3 SUR-13 members that were arrested by East Fallowfield Police were a part of a group in Virginia and Maryland. An older man with 1 and 3 shaved eyebrows was in a Coatesville laundromat at about that same time. An investigation lead to the break up of that SUR-13 group. I have not seen any new SUR-13 graffiti since then.

See:
Mexico Under Siege The drug war at our doorstep
Los Angeles Times coverage of Mexico Under Siege

http://projects.latimes.com/mexico-drug-war/#/its-a-war