A global commission, consisting of some very big names, admits the war on drugs has been a complete failure. We can hope this is the beginning of the end.
“War on Drugs: Report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy”
“The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world.”
It seems almost everyone I talk to knows that the war on drugs is an utter failure. This misguided public policy response to a serious problem has managed to corrupt entire police forces and even, arguably, whole countries. Because prices take into account risk factors in supplying goods it has, as the James Bond movie “License to Kill” so graphically showed, enabled really bad people to become obscenely wealthy. The fallout has resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent people caught in the cross-fire between gangs of thugs, while doing nothing to ...
