Christopher Moraff on the effort to legalize drugs in Mexico:
A call for drug-policy reform is echoing across Latin America, where a decades-long, U.S.-sponsored battle against drug production and distribution has fostered a climate of fear, insecurity, and death. Throughout the region, former and current political leaders have allied with academics, medical professionals, and community activists to issue an appeal for a multinational dialogue on alternatives to the current drug war, including a possible end to drug prohibition.
Nowhere is the sense of urgency more acute than in Mexico, where President Felipe Calderon’s ongoing battle against the drug cartels has left parts of the country in a near perpetual state of combat.
