Legalization: Mexico and the drug war - Commentary

An editorial from Missouri on the insanity of the drug war.

Mexico and the drug war - Commentary | The Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia, Missouri: "We don’t seem to care that our billion-dollar war is not working. In a perverse way, the more law enforcement we deploy, the higher drug prices become, the more lucrative the black market, the larger the incentive for more criminal activity and the more we will spend on enforcement. It’s a vicious losing cycle only getting worse.

We could stop the violence here and in Mexico and everywhere else where illegal drugs are produced and sold into the huge U.S. black market. We could legalize drugs just as we did almost a hundred years ago with alcohol, when a similar black-market crime spree threatened our peace and tranquility." Jan. 22, 2011