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