That’s the title of Nicholas Kristof’s new column in the New York Times

This year marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon‰s start of the war on drugs, and it now appears that drugs have won. […]
Here in the United States, four decades of drug war have had three consequences:
First, we have vastly increased the proportion of our population in prisons. […]
Second, we have empowered criminals at home and terrorists abroad. […]
Third, we have squandered resources. […]

The movement to reform is unmistakable and unstoppable. It’s just a matter of when and how much dishonest interference the entrenched drug warriors can lay down.

[Thanks, Tom!]

Transform has the story:

The largest ever study of cocaine use around the globe was carried out in the early 90’s by the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) and funded by the UN Inter-regional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), but under pressure from the US its publication was suppressed when it became clear the […]