A Mexican federal policeman stands next to packages of drugs that had been removed from a tunnel under the U.S.-Mexico border on Wednesday in Tijuana, Mexico. Police in the city have recently been disarmed as federal troops try to establish control over the drug trade there. (Photo: David Maung/AP)From Reason:
A distinguished Latin American commission admits that prohibition has failed.
In the story of the emperor with no clothes, it took someone whose observations are rarely heeded—a child—to point out the obvious fact that no one else could acknowledge. In the case of drug policy, it takes people who are usually ignored by Washington policymakers—Latin Americans—to perform the same invaluable service.
Last week, a commission made up of 17 members, from Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa to Sonia Picado, the Costa Rican who heads the Inter-American Institute on Human Rights, did nothing but admit the truth: The war on drugs is a failure.
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