Drug-law reform: Inching forward
Restless politicians are changing the debate about narcotics liberalisation
The Economist (UK)
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Seven of the world’s eight most violent countries lie on the bloody trafficking route from the cocaine fields of the Andes to the nostrils of North America. So it is unsurprising that Latin American leaders are fed up with the way drugs are policed. The international rules on prohibition were laid down by the United Nations more than 50 years ago, making drug policy difficult for individual countries to reform. But diplomats and do-gooders are finding ever more chinks in prohibition’s legal armour.
