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Redefining drug war success

In a story in The Economist today about the decline in meth lab busts caused by restrictions on pseudoephedrine, the magazine offers this backhanded praise for the policies, despite evidence that drug subsitution and Mexican imports have largely supplanted domestic demand:This does not mean the campaign against meth has been pointless. Far from it. The shift from a cottage industry to a well-run international business was good, because it meant amateur meth cooks were no longer setting fire to their children. Moving people onto other, slightly less harmful drugs is no bad thing, either. So grim was the methamphetamine experience in Pierce county that some view the rise of crack cocaine with relief.That's perhaps the most succinct statement I've seen of the overall benefits from pseudoephedrine restrictions, which I've written about fairly extensively on Grits...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 01, 2008 (boomark / email).