Vineland Today

[Robin Landseadel]

The Drug War Failure
The National Review, online
Conrad Black, his conclusion:

	. . .	There is room for legitimate argument about what
	course the U.S. should follow in drug-control policy, but
	there is no possible dispute that the present course has
	been such an unmitigated failure that it has aggravated
	the societal problem, strained relations with friendly
	foreign countries and destabilized some, and, as Milton
	Friedman said in 1991, constituted a protectionist
	bonanza for the most virulent and sociopathic elements
	of organized crime. In comparison, Prohibition, which
	handed the liquor business to Al Capone and his
	analogues, was a howling success, and it was
	repealed after 14 years. Surely, we can do better than
	this. But as with most other urgent issues, we are
	completing a pyrotechnic midterm-election campaign
	with scarcely a peep being raised on a subject that
	affects almost half the population of the United States.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/251121/drug-war-failure-conrad-black?page=2