Pubdate: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 Source: DrugSense Weekly (DSW) Website: http://www.drugsense.org LETTER OF THE WEEK HOPELESSNESS IN MEXICO'S DRUG WAR By Gene Fellner Regarding the Dec. 27 front-page article "Mexico questions its drug strategy": The United States has survived the violence of its war on drugs, but Mexico might not. This sad situation illustrates something that nearly everyone except the folks in the U.S. government has known since Prohibition turned our streets into battlegrounds: The second-order effects of criminalizing drugs cause more harm than the drugs themselves. Gene Fellner, Derwood Pubdate: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 Source: Washington Post (DC) Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n1155/a05.html - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake