The traffic and consumption of drugs has become in the last 30 years in the most important public policy topic in Mexico. Each year, thousands of Mexican lives are lost by reasons directly or indirectly related to how illegal drugs are produced, distributed and consumed in Mexico, the USA, and Europe. The dead are not only members of criminal organisations in their fight for the control of distribution routes and local markets but, fundamentally, thousands and thousands of innocent victims who are trapped in the middle of the drug war by the only reason that they live and work in zones under the control or under dispute of drug. The complexities of the existence of a market for illegal drugs—in Mexico and the world—have major negative impacts on the everyday lives of Mexicans: the (mis)respect for their human rights, the (lack of) growth of their economy, the (narco) politics, the (lack of) justice, and the (lack of) democracy.