Six years after California legalized marijuana, violence continues to escalate, with six men murdered in the Mojave Desert earlier this year and seven killed at an illegal pot operation in Riverside County in 2020.

Six years after California legalized marijuana, the bodies keep piling up. Drug legalization has failed on every level. The legal drug business is collapsing. Cartels and gang members dominate the business. And open borders allowed them to bring massive numbers of laborers...