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"In the Drug War, Drugs Are Winning"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this notable new commentary by Steve Chapman that a helpful reader sent my way.  Here are excerpts: Mexico has been wracked by murders connected to the drug trade. Last year, it suffered more than 6,500 drug-related killings, triple the number in 2007. And 2010 looks worse. This is not an epidemic of crazed meth addicts slaughtering people at random. It's the byproduct of a war involving narcotics traffickers, who sometimes kill each other, sometimes kill police and soldiers, sometimes kill journalists who report their crimes and sometimes kill innocent bystanders. So what can the Golden State offer in the way of assistance? Something potentially valuable. In November, Californians will vote on a ballot initiative that would make it legal not only to use marijuana but to grow and sell it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 29, 2010 (boomark / email).