All Posts Tagged With: "mexico"

How to End Mexico’s Deadly Drug War

Albert Einstein declared, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” He wasn’t describing the federal government’s nearly century-long war on drugs but he might as well have been.
Despite ample lip-service for “hope” and “change,” the Obama administration’s cynical response to the escalating drug prohibition-related violence [...]

18Nov2009 | Paul Armentano | 3 comments | Continued

What The Drug Warriors Have Given Us

Does anyone still think the “war on drugs” is a good idea?

That may strike some people as an odd question under the circumstances, so let’s take it from another direction. Have you seen the news stories about the violence on the border being perpetrated by the Mexican whiskey and cigarette cartels?

No? That’s probably because there was no such violence and are no such cartels.

So why are there violent cartels in marijuana, cocaine, and heroin but not in whiskey and cigarettes?

All together now: prohibition.

17Jun2009 | Sheldon Richman | 8 comments | Continued

Mr. Obama, Tear Down This Wall!

All of us should worry, if not panic, when we remember that the walls keeping others out also keep us in.

21May2009 | Becky Akers | 60 comments | Continued