This is my latest diary on the failed Drug War, including the war against cannabis, specifically.
We have a problem with cartel terrorism
on our doorstep.
Who still thinks the fiasco we are causing in Mexico is a good idea? Not these guys:
Andrés Martinez, Director of the New America Foundation's Bernard L. Schwartz Fellows Program and former Editorial Page Editor of the Los Angeles Times, Jeffrey Miron, Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University and Fareed Zakaria, Editor and Columnist, Newsweek International.
http://www.benzinga.com/...
They were part of the winning team at Intelligence Squared: "...the Oxford-style debate series, an initiative of The Rosenkranz Foundation, hosted its final debate of the fall season on Tuesday in New York City. The subject was the US’s role in Mexico’s drug war. The team in favor of the proposition, America is to Blame for Mexico’s Drug War, scored an undisputed victory with 72% of the audience at the debate’s conclusion siding with them."
Of interest is recent news that the 1.4$ billion aid program that Bush created to escalate the war in Mexico, alongside Felipe Calderon, isn't doing anything at all.
http://www.google.com/...
Some are asking why we should escalate war in Afghanistan, if that same logic means we might as well also send US troops into Mexico?
[ I'm typing this diary up at work during a lull, and MSNBC is doing its millionth segment on Oaksterdam and the medical cannabis business. Unfortunately for residents of Los Angeles, their city budget is about to worsen due to a caveman-esque attempt by the city DA to shut down dispensaries, a huge source of tax revenue. Is Big Pharma paying tax on al the oxycontin and vicodin it pushes in pharmacies?]
When cannabis is legalized, you'll see the same flip-flopping you saw after another failed war- Iraq. All these former 'drug warriors' are falling over themselves right now to flip-flop and claim that they never supported criminalization of cannabis.
This
is what will happen each and every day that we allow cartels to continue raising 60% of their profits through cannabis sales, cash used to buy off cops, politicians, and acquire guns.