You know things have changed when mainstream media coverage of the war on drugs increasingly looks like this:

In the 40 years since U.S. President Richard Nixon declared a "war on drugs," the supply and use of drugs has not changed in any fundamental way. The only difference: a taxpayer bill of more than $1 trillion.

A senior Mexican official who has spent more than two decades helping fight the government's war on drugs summed up recently what he's learned from his long career: "This war is not winnable." [WSJ]

The whole piece is excellent and it's exactly this sort of thorough reporting that's been missing from the drug policy debate for far too long.