by Bernd Debusmann, Jr.
Mexican drug trafficking cartels make billions each year smuggling drugs into the United States, profiting enormously from the forbiddanceist drug policies of the US government. Since Mexican president Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and called the armed forces into the fight against the so-called cartels, forbiddance-related violence has killed more than 38,000 people, including more than 15,000 last year. The increasing militarization of the drug war and the arrest or killing of dozens of high-profile drug dealers have failed to stem the flow of drugs …

by Bernd Debusmann, Jr.
Mexican drug trafficking cartels make billions each year smuggling drugs into the United States, profiting enormously from the prohibitionist drug policies of the US government. Since Mexican president Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and called the armed forces into the fight against the so-called cartels, prohibition-related violence has killed more than 38,000 people, including more than 15,000 last year. The multiplying militarization of the drug war and the arrest or killing of dozens of high-profile drug peddlers have failed to stem the flow of drugs …

In a radio interview on WOR-AM last week, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg unexpectedly brought up the subject of drug legalization. Responding to a question about medical herb tweeted by a listener, Bloomberg seemed to realize he was stumbling into a minefield. "I'm sort of reticent to bring it up," he said, "What's up with medical herb in NYC," he continued, reading the question aloud. "Is it going to be okay soon? Need to know by this weekend," he read, inspiring mayoral laughter.
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by Bernd Debusmann, Jr.
Mexican drug trafficking corporations make billions each year smuggling drugs into the United States, profiting enormously from the proscriptionist drug policies of the US government. Since Mexican president Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and called the armed forces into the fight against the so-called cartels, proscription-related violence has killed more than 36,000 people, including more than 15,000 last year. The increasing militarization of the drug war and the arrest or killing of dozens of high-profile drug dealers have failed to stem the flow of drugs …

by Bernd Debusmann, Jr.
Mexican drug trafficking aggregations make billions each year smuggling drugs into the United States, profiting enormously from the disallowanceist drug policies of the US government. Since Mexican president Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and called the armed forces into the fight against the so-called cartels, disallowance-related violence has killed more than 36,000 people, including more than 15,000 last year. The accumulating militarization of the drug war and the arrest or killing of dozens of high-profile drug peddlers have failed to stem the flow of drugs …

Mexican drug trafficking corporations make billions each year smuggling drugs into the United States, profiting enormously from the proscriptionist drug policies of the US government. Since Mexican president Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and called the armed forces into the fight against the so-called cartels, proscription-related violence has killed more than 36,000 people, including more than 15,000 last year. The enlarging militarization of the drug war and the arrest or killing of dozens of high-profile drug dealers have failed to stem the flow of drugs — or the …

by Bernd Debusmann, Jr.
Mexican drug trafficking cartels make billions each year smuggling drugs into the United States, profiting enormously from the prohibitionist drug policies of the US government. Since Mexican president Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and called the armed forces into the fight against the so-called cartels, prohibition-related violence has killed more than 36,000 people, including more than 15,000 last year. The accumulating militarization of the drug war and the arrest or killing of dozens of high-profile drug dealers have failed to stem the flow of drugs …

Hostage Nation: Colombia's Guerrilla Army and the Failed War on Drugs, by Victoria Bruce and Karin Mayes, with Jorge Enrique Botero (2010, Alfred E. Knopf Publishers, 315 pp., $26.95 HB)

Hostage Nation is a great read, but its title is something of misnomer. What the book is really about is the capture of four American contractors by FARC guerrillas after their plane went down on an anti-coca pesticide-spraying mission in 2003. One was executed by the FARC at the scene; the others spent more than five years in captivity in the …

by Bernd Debusmann, Jr.
Mexican drug trafficking consortiums make billions each year smuggling drugs into the United States, profiting enormously from the forbiddanceist drug policies of the US government. Since Mexican president Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and called the armed forces into the fight against the so-called cartels, forbiddance-related violence has killed more than 36,000 people, including more than 15,000 last year. The increasing militarization of the drug war and the arrest or killing of dozens of high-profile drug peddlers have failed to stem the flow of drugs …

by Bernd Debusmann, Jr.
Mexican drug trafficking aggregations make billions each year smuggling drugs into the United States, profiting enormously from the forbiddanceist drug policies of the US government. Since Mexican president Felipe Calderon took office in December 2006 and called the armed forces into the fight against the so-called cartels, forbiddance-related violence has killed more than 36,000 people, including more than 15,000 last year. The multiplying militarization of the drug war and the arrest or killing of dozens of high-profile drug dealers have failed to stem the flow of drugs …