The truce on drugs
What happens now that the war has failed?
New York Magazine (US)
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Something unexpected has happened in the past five years. The condemnations of the war on drugs - of the mechanized imprisonment of much of our inner cities, of the brutal wars sustained in Latin America at our behest, of the sheer cost of prohibition, now likely past a trillion dollars - have migrated out from the left-wing cul-de-sacs that they have long inhabited and into the political Establishment.
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