The country already entered a giant shit hole, decades ago, thanks to the war on drugs.
Only Stalin's gulags held more in prison than the US has under the war on drugs. It's easily arguable that over the span of the program, we've outdone Stalin.
Poverty, crime, cartels, destroyed families, destroyed lives, millions in prison: hundreds of billions of dollars spent without solving a single thing, without fixing anything, without ever reducing addiction or stopping drug use. America's cities became war zones when the war on drugs began.
Tell Mexico's tens of thousands of innocent victims that have been slaughtered by our war, that it's all working out just swell.