How America Lost the War on Drugs

**Lemur** · 12-04-2007, 04:30

In fairness, there are few major magazines that will publish an article of this length. Vanity Fair (occasionally), The New Yorker and Rolling Stone. My beloved Economist will do multi-article profiles of a region or trend, but they would never allow one journo to meditate on a subject for 10,000 words.

So Vladimir, why not give it a read before you pronounce it worthless? Even if the journo arrives at conclusions with which you disagree, there may be some interesting facts to glean from this kind of reporting.

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Originally Posted by Vladimir

I should quote your entire post for its foolishness.

Then why not do so? My post consisted of the words, "Good read," followed by a clip from the article. I must have been using condensed foolishness.

**Crazed Rabbit** · 12-04-2007, 04:43

I think it's something to say that we haven't lost the war on drugs, we're just losing it right now - we still have the opportunity to change way we're doing things.

But the article seems to make sense, assuming they have their sources right. They highlight a lot of problems with the way we've been doing this. Of course, I am against the war on drugs as it is currently waged.

CR
EDIT: Lemur - not just condensed, but concentrated and fortified