Legal Drugs Can Kill Too

Thanks primarily to steps taken toward decriminalization and legalization of marijuana, the price of the plant has fallen dramatically.  Over the last five years alone the price decline has been 75% leading Mexican farmers to cease planting pot.

According to The Washington Post:

“It’s not worth it anymore,” said Rodrigo Silla, 50, a lifelong cannabis farmer who said he couldn’t remember the last time his family and others in their tiny hamlet gave up growing mota. “I wish the Americans would stop with this legalization.”

Even bigger beneficiaries than farmers of the plant were the drug cartels who grew strong over the past four decades because of the U.S. war on drugs.

Also, in regards to the massive boost in heroin demand by American drug users The Post notes:

Although prescription painkillers remain more widely abused and account for far more fatal overdoses, heroin has been “moving all over the country and popping up in areas you didn’t see before,” said Carl Pike, a senior official in the Special Operations Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Do you think there is any connection between mass state interference in the prescription drug trade and high rates of overdose?  In response to this health crisis could we see one city or county nullifying FDA statutes in the search for greater freedom and safety for their sick people?