Mexico's drug laws, America's future legislation

Since the inception of our country, America more notable its government, has possessed an elitist, arrogant attitude when the topic of international policy is addressed. Consider the American revolution, while it luckily ended quite nicely on our behalf, troops were going against a force to be reckoned where conceivable we should have lost. Fortunately, the arrogance paid off and with a little help from our allies, we won. Consider instances where America intervened in Iranian or Cuban affairs based on our beliefs that "we knew better" & "we want to save the world," America caused conflict and major violence that could have easily been avoided had our desire been suppressed. I can not recall one instance where we have humbled ourselves to look at another nation to emulate their policies to help solve our own problems. Maybe following Mexico's and many other Latin American country's ideas will be the place to start. It is fact that the "war on drugs" on our continent, and I will even take it as far as to say our world, sees no borders. It doesn't see race, gender, sexual orientation let alone specific government. So why, when there are close bordering nations that are addressing the same if not worse drug problem we are, is America not looking for a new solution? Why do we view ourselves as better than to look at other country's changes and see if they can help us? Obviously the current plan isn't working because drugs are increasing everyday in our country. This might be the time to prove our humility and look to Mexico and other Latin American countries as they decriminalize drug possession and ask ourselves if this might be the best solution for us. Who knows it might let other countries know that when the last administration left, they took their arrogance with them.