sort-of but I think Brolin's line about wanting to "control" the trade instead of it essentially being the wild wild west out there was the main "message" of the movie. And the best way to do that is bring it under governmental regulation like alcohol and cigarettes are...if alcohol was illegal the same shyt would be going on down in mexico tooMovies basically showed how the war on drugs is a very gray area...
Certain approaches may not be ethical or even legal but necessary