War on drugs

Foreign Policy has an interesting OpEd on the failed war on drugs. Here's the link and a brief quote:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4861


The Washington consensus on drugs rests on two widely shared beliefs. The first is that the war on drugs is a failure. The second is that it cannot be changed.
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This "it doesn't work, but don't change it" incongruity is not just a
quirk of the U.S. public. It is a manifestation of how the prohibition on drugs has led to a prohibition on rational thought. "Most of my colleagues know that the war on drugs is bankrupt," a U.S. senator told me, "but for many of us, supporting any form of decriminalization of drugs has long been politically suicidal."

As a result of this utter failure to think, the United States today is
both the world's largest importer of illicit drugs and the world's largest exporter of bad drug policy. The U.S. government expects, indeed demands, that its allies adopt its goals and methods and actively collaborate with U.S. drug-fighting agencies. This expectation is one of the few areas of rigorous continuity in U.S. foreign policy over the last three decades.