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Should all Drugs be Legalized? A conservative Mormon’s solution Edward K. Watson Ladies and gentlemen, I have news that will shock you – the Drug War is a failure! Cost of the War on DrugsThe Western world has spent TRILLIONS of dollars fighting drug use over the past century and what do we have to show for it? Millions of addicts, billionaire drug lords, phenomenally wealthy drug cartels and drug dealers, a more than $500 billion global illicit drug industry, corrupt security and judicial officers, millions incarcerated in overcrowded prisons, astronomical drug-related assaults, murders, thefts and prostitution and criminal...