Is The US Winning The War On Drugs? [VIDEO]

By Adam Howard
Posted on October 25, 2007, Printed on November 25, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers//65938/

This text and this video come from Foreign Policy TV

Should drugs like marijuana, heroin, and cocaine be legal? Watch the fireworks as Ethan Nadelmann, author of Think Again: Drugs and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance clashes with David Murray, chief scientist at the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy.

"We are making major progress," argues Murray, adding, "We and the rest of the civilized world has made this decision: This must be fought." But the drug war is "a long, slow, devastating failure" that is as bad as Vietnam and Iraq, Nadelmann counters.

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Adam Howard is the editor of PEEK.

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