drugs in Vineland---and drug laws

[Robin Landseadel]

Phil Bronstein weighs in from the Huffington Post:	

	So how to cauterize this transnational wound? Unclear from the
	secretary of state, other than promising to ship down there
	some more choppers and night vision goggles, which are
	probably pretty cool when you're loaded.

	The demand side went completely unaddressed. Remember:
	Bill didn't inhale. Maybe she'll resurrect Nancy Reagan's
	popular and successful "Just Say No"campaign. A slightly
	easier form of abstinence to sell. Or, at a minimum, she might
	talk Forbes magazine out of putting Mexican drug emperor
	Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on its world's richest people list
	just as a painful reminder. How would we feel if they put Bernie
	Madoff on theirs?

	Then there was that inconvenient Congressional withholding of
	about $200 million in drug counter trafficking funds for Mexico.

	"There have been lots of different voices from the Obama
	Administration," theNYTimes quotes Andrew Selee, director of
	the Mexico institute at the Woodrow Wilson International
	Center, as understating. Kind of like all the voices on those old
	"Firesign Theater" records.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phil-bronstein/obama-and-clinton-on-drug_b_180090.html
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