It is time to think differently about the war on drugs

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It is time to think differently about the war on drugs. The mess we are in cannot continue. The poor and disadvantaged suffer the most. Cocaine must be legalized and regulated, and heroin should follow. The prohibition of drug markets has generated more violence. It is clear that we must regulate, but the question is how.

That is from my article, with Javier Calderón, "Legalize it?," in the Latin America Policy Journal, a publication by a group of Harvard Kennedy School students. (Free registration).