Vincente Fox is one man who knows the destructive consequences of drug prohibition, and he has become as outspoken as one can be on the topic. Consider this new interview with High Times.
The war on drugs convoked by President Nixon forty years ago has been a total failure. . . There is no reduction in crime rates, no reduction on the killings and the dead, no reduction on consumption, and the problem gets worse and worse.
For skeptics, he says, take a look at the Portugal experience, since they decriminalized all drugs in 2001.