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Prohibition Doesn't Work

By Michael Blankenship

Using drug and racketeering statutes and extradition agreements, federal prosecutors are sending a steady parade of Mexican drug lords into U.S. prisons. Although that is having a chilling effect on the smuggling cartels, there is no sign that the convictions are breaking the organizations, which are growing more violent, according to U.S. officials and other experts. Read more...  How much more evidence is needed to convince policy makers that our current prohibition-based drug policies are not only failing to reduce drug use and abuse, but are in fact, contributing to violence in Mexico and elsewhere. We've had decades of experience with trying to stem to flow of drugs, and all we have to show for it are millions of dollars wasted and thousands of lives destroyed...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on April 28, 2010 (boomark / email).