Posts Tagged ‘policy failures’

The international war on drugs marks 100 years of failure

Friday, March 6th, 2009

NEW YORK - It’s hard to believe it’s been 100 years already.

Prohibition never works, people.

Prohibition never works, people.

Brian Doherty at Reason Online has written an excellent piece on the cost, futility and continued dogged pursuit of an international prohibition against recreational drugs.

As Mexican drug cartel violence and kidnappings push across the U.S. border in the Southwest, maybe it’s time we start rethinking our policies.