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That was George H.W. Bush who helped set up the cartels as CIA chief and brought it in (White) house as Vice President. It was, however, not very inventive as the US government entered into the drug biz many years earlier, especially during the Viet Nam war where building up the herioin market in the US was part of effort to build bridges with the South East Asian tribal leaders--- development assistence was helping them become drug lords. It seems that over the past 50 years one could map the popularity of specific drugs with US geo-politics... Not able to fight an Opium War to keep the supply going to ruin other countries they fought to create a home market to generate funds to buy other countries...