So drug cartels are hired by the government to groom a kid for a shooting, and the solution is turning back the clock on cannabis legalization to give cartels more profits?

No way. Time to end the cartels by legalizing all drugs. Drug prohibition is expensive. The US can't afford it anymore.

The main thing drug money used to be used for was bribing government officials to be our friends all around the world. Now the Fed just prints limitless money. Drug prohibition is now nothing but a liability. Limitless Fed money is how Joe Biden stole the 2020 election even; drug money is that obsolete and never managed to do that.