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More calls for an end to the drug war and legalization of marijuana

By Douglas A. Berman

The number of voices calling for and end to the drug war and/or the legalization of marijuana continues to grow.  For example, this cover story in The Economist this week is titled "Failed states and failed policies; How to stop the drug wars: Prohibition has failed; legalisation is the least bad solution."  Here is a snippet: Next week ministers from around the world gather in Vienna to set international drug policy for the next decade. Like first-world-war generals, many will claim that all that is needed is more of the same.  In fact the war on drugs has been a disaster, creating failed states in the developing world even as addiction has flourished in the rich world.  By any sensible measure, this 100-year struggle has been illiberal, murderous and pointless...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 09, 2009 (boomark / email).