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WHY THE US AND LATIN AMERICA COULD BE READY TO END A FRUITLESS 40-YEAR STRUGGLE

Source: The Observer

8 August 2010

By Rory Carroll and Paul Harris

Mexico’s president Felipe Caldéron is the latest Latin leader to call for a debate on drugs legalisation. And in the US, liberals and right-wing libertarians are pressing for an end to prohibition. Forty years after President Nixon launched the ‘war on drugs’ there is a growing momentum to abandon the fight