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Unwinnable war Drug prohibition falls short of objectives

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From: The Gazette
Date: 20050411
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British historian Thomas Carlyle once wrote, "Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist." That attitude might be too dismissive of what drives economies. But it's the attitude that keeps the international war on drugs chugging along, destroying at least as many lives as the drugs themselves.

The law of supply and demand is routinely ignored as developed nations co-opt undeveloped and underdeveloped nations by offering them aid in exchange for attacking drugs at their sources. Such is the case in Colombia, where President Alvaro Uribe announced recently that his ...

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