Legalize All Drugs: Vicente Fox's Plea Follows a Hopelessly Failed War on Drugs Crawford Kilian - The Tyee
go to original February 22, 2014

Fox: Tens of thousands of Mexicans have become victims of an 'insane war against an enemy we can never defeat with the current prohibitions in place.' (Jake Dean/Dallas Business Journal)

Recently Vicente Fox, the ex-president of Mexico, called for the legalization of not only marijuana, but of all drugs.

"Legalization of not just marijuana, but all drugs, is the right thing to do," he wrote in an opinion piece published in the Globe and Mail this week.

"The dramatic war on drugs in Mexico, in which tens of thousands of young Mexicans have been killed, is proof of prohibition's failure. These people were not born criminals; they did not possess criminality in their genes. And yet because of a flawed public policy, because of lack of education and disinformation, because of lack of better economic incentives and opportunities, they became victims of an insane war against an enemy we can never defeat with the current prohibitions in place."

... All this violence is due to a market that is simply trying to make its American and Canadian customers feel really, really good.

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