After forty years and a trillion dollars, supporters of the drug war still claim that any discussion of legalization sends the “wrong message” to children.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon and President Obama ignored the elephant in the room in their meeting -- drug prohibition is the cause of prohibition.
Sadly, legalization is not even part of the policy dialogue in D.C. -- the U.S. drug czar has repeatedly said it's not even part of his or Obama's "vocabulary."