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The Economist
Editor and former Mexico City Bureau Chief of The Economist, and author of Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel
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Tom Wainwright
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FROM Tom Wainwright
To the Point
The Global War on Drugs Is Dead This week the United Nations General Assembly took on global drug policy . The widespread consensus is that the hardline policies of the 1990’s war on drugs have failed. In the past decade 25 countries have passed some kind of decriminalization for drug possession.
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