End the War on Drugs: The real story behind Four Corners' expose on organised crime
The real story that emerges from Crime Incorporated, last night's joint
Four Corners/Fairfax expose of organised crime and the drug trade in
Australia is that this country should end its 'War on Drugs'.
Toronto this week became the first city in the world to formally endorse the Vienna Declaration that states that war-on-drugs-style prohibitions are a costly failure...
Mexico's stark reminder of the cost of prohibition
Even by the barbaric standards of Mexico's drug criminality, the discovery
this week in the north-east of the country of a mass grave with 72 bodies –
including 14 women – is shocking.