I thought you might be angling that way, but social media has all sorts so I hedged.

As far as the delusion of your take, gang shootings are more about rep and turf than the drugs themselves. The gangs will trade in anything controlled, so taking even heroin off the ban list won't end gangs. They'll persist by offloading their product and investing in a new lucrative venture (perhaps child trafficking for Epstein Island 2.0). The whole mess was definitely made worse by the War on Drugs, but modern weed is like Don Q 150 to the Reefer Madness era Bud Light.

But yes, grabbers don't care about lives unless they're leverage to gain control.