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Wall St. Journal Op-Ed: Former Presidents of Brazil, Mexico and Columbia Declare War on Drugs a Failure

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Former Presidents of Brazil, Mexico and Columbia Declare War on Drugs a Failure The War on Drugs Is a Failure Wall Street Journal FEBRUARY 23, 2009 We should focus instead on reducing harm to users and on tackling organized crime. By FERNANDO HENRIQUE CARDOSO, CéSAR GAVIRIA and ERNESTO ZEDILLO The war on drugs has failed. And it's high time to replace an ineffective strategy with more humane and efficient drug policies. This is the central message of the report by the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy we presented to the public recently in Rio de Janeiro. A soldier stands next to packages containing marijuana at an army base in Cali, Colombia, August 2008. Prohibitionist policies based on eradication, interdiction and criminalization of consumption simply haven't worked...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 24, 2009 (boomark / email).