Pretty interesting book
The War on Drugs: 'A Trillion-Dollar Failure' | Rolling Stone
And it's been going on for decades, with virtually little to no outrage from the public.
The war on drugs is politically expedient tool for politicians, but every time the government clamps down the situation only gets worse.
The War on Drugs is a trillion-dollar failure. We spend billions of dollars pursuing drugs and billions imprisoning people that probably shouldn't be in prison. We have troops in Central America chasing drug dealers, we have Special Forces and Marines. Meanwhile, this war has killed a hundred thousand people in Mexico – and that doesn't include 22,000 people missing.
Portugal even with it's halfway approach is far better now after their 14 year experiment.And people in this country barely seem to notice.
We've become conditioned to go, "Well, Mexico is corrupt, that's Mexico." But I would ask the question "What kind of corruption do we have? What kind of corruption do we have in our soul that makes us the world's largest market for drugs, which is what fuels and funds this violence?"