A Drug War on Auto-Pilot
The "war on drugs" in Latin America has been an abject failure. It is time for a serious reconsideration of the status and regulation of illegal drugs, one that points to selective legalization, as well as to reclassification of the market for drugs as a public-health, rather than a criminal, concern.
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THE HAGUE – The war in Afghanistan, now approaching its tenth year, may seem to many to have no end in sight, but Latin America has endured an even longer fight, one that has recently become much more bloody: the “war” against drug trafficking. So rote – and so violent – has that war become that many people in Latin America now wonder which side is suffering the more pathological addiction.