Legal Commentary

The costs of prohibition

By Tom Kirkendall

The nature of the problems that confront Texans and law enforcement officers who live near the Texas-Mexico border have been a frequent topic on this blog (see here, here, and here). Those problems are exacerbated by the archaic nature of U.S. drug laws (see here and here).

This must-read Scott Henson post does an excellent job of defining the parameters of the increasingly serious problems on the Texas-Mexico border.

No Country for Old Men may be fiction, but the story it tells is very real.

Full post as published by Houston's Clear Thinkers on January 28, 2008 (boomark / email).