Some Say Legalization Could End the Drug Wars

The deadly and seemingly hopeless drug-related violence along the Mexican-American border has some drug legalization proponents full of hope.

The violence is both proof that the United States drug prohibition has failed and an opportunity to renew the legalization debate, drug legalization proponents said. Support for drug policy reform is growing as people learn of the economic and social benefits of throwing out criminalization, legalization proponents claimed, while drug prohibition advocates continue to warn that a permissive drug policy is dangerous.

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