The Narco State -- Charles Kenny, Foreign Policy
There's good news on the drug war: The world knows how to end it -- so why can't the United States figure it out?
America's longest running war -- the one against drugs -- came in for abuse this weekend at the Summit of the Americas. The abuse is deserved. Forty years of increasingly violent efforts to stamp out the drug trade haven't worked. And the blood and treasure lost is on a scale with America's more conventional wars. On the upside, we know that an approach based around treating drugs as a public health issue reaps benefits to both users and the rest of us.
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My Comment: The global war on drugs has failed, and the result has not only been the creation and expansion of crime syndicates and armed conflicts, but also economic/social/political chaos and corruption on a national (and international) level.
This article by Charles Kenny for Foreign Policy is a must read .... providing a good summary on why we need a new approach to combat what is essentially now a worldwide conflict with casualty figures approaching what low intensity conventional wars usually produce.