Former Mexican president says country will legalise all drugs within a decade

[Warpy]

1. It's the only sensible approach there--and here

Undercut the black market price with pure drugs that have reliable dosages. The gangs will have to go into some other line of business, maybe even put on suits and pay taxes. Nothing supports gang finances like black market mind altering substances. Nothing reinforces addiction like having one's supply threatened by illegality. Nothing causes street crime like having to pay a black market price for something one is under addictive compulsion to keep using.

The drug war is a miserable failure that has cost us all too much in lives and money.

Some people will always run into trouble with drugs. Most won't. I don't see the people who can't stay away from psychoactive substances going without them at the height of the drug war. It hasn't worked. All it's done is decrease the supply of the more benign substances and replace them with bathtub drugs that are much, much worse.