Ben Wallace-Wells’ extensive article in Rolling Stone chronicles a litany of failures in the modern age of the war on drugs — failures of politics, judgement, and personality.
While I’m not sure I agree with all of Wallace-Wells’ assumptions (such as whether, if smarter decisions had been made, significant “victories” in the war on drugs would have been possible), the article is an essential primer for understanding this war.
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