[GeronL]

doesn’t New Scientist take every faux pseudo-science thing seriously?

[muir_redwoods]

"Legalize drugs for a better world"

What? And give up all the glittering advantages of prohibition?

[GunRunner]

At least the Prohibitionists in the 1900-1910s had the decency to pass a Constitutional Amendment. Today we have fiat drug laws that are easily exploited by the cartels.

I agree; end the drug war now.

[A CA Guy]

There was no war on drugs in Mexico forever, then Calderon came in and started a serious fight because what you ended up with was drug lords owning Mexico using money from crime to pay off all the elected officials and killing off those they could not buy.

If anything, Mexico shows what is wrong in allowing drugs and not enforcing anything for so long.
Now they have criminals acting like internal terrorist all over their nation.
Lets hope all the bad drug people die soon so Mexico can heal from all the drug lords.

[MNJohnnie]

Check out the crime rate in Amsterdam vis via the rest of Europe. Legalizing drugs increases, not decreases crime.

[BJClinton]

and has not been stopped by the most draconian laws

Not completely true, Singapore is mostly drug free. The question is do we want to live in that kind of state?

[Hodar]

In the 10,000 year history of man, Prohibition has served only to produce extreme profits for the production and distribution of the contraband, increase misery and suffering on the population, and increase the potency of the contraband. Why smuggle beer when you can smuggle whiskey? Why smuggle pot when you can smuggle crack?

Flat out .... is has not ever worked.

[TigersEye]

If they come for your guns using no-knock warrants thank the War On Some Drugs.

[Natural Law]

Like the failed policies dealing with terrorism prior to 9/11 continuing to treat the war on America by the drug cartels as exclusively a legal issue is bound to fail. I wish the government would set the military loose on the cartels with a dead or alive, anywhere, any time mandate and just get out of the way. If things go exothermic in Mexico or Columbia, too bad.

[investigateworld]

Having been in the 'Drug Warrior' bidness, IMHO; the only answer is to allow the family of anyone who gets addicted to kill the person(s) who got their relative started.

All dopers I know are the very picture of cowards/wimps etc.

ALL of them dream of finding a fresh young woman (or boy for that matter) who they can get hooked and put on the street to earn money for their dope.

With proper investigations and trials, it would work like a charm.

Don't believe me? Try giving dope to someone who has a caring family with Mafia connections .....

Oh, and take away all tax payer support (welfare medical etc) and the problems would be gone.

[VeniVidiVici]

So you legalize drugs. How is that supposed to stop the cartels from supplying anyhow? They’ll see a tightly controlled market, heavily taxed, and they will still try to run drugs into the country. Drugs that will sell like hotcakes as they will be much cheaper than what you can buy legally.

[OpeEdMunkey]

Legalize drugs for a better world cleaner gene pool.

There. Fixed it.