Does anyone recall the "War on Drugs" declared by President Nixon in 1971? The War on Drugs, like the War on Iraq, has been costly but futile (not to mention Afghanistan). The former has faded from our corporate memory, and the latter is well on its way to the same fate. We know the demand begins in our heartland, but the addiction is fed at our borders to the south, largely Mexico, which has cultivated opium poppy since before the 1900s and has been an important transit route for South American cocaine for decades. [continues 449 words]
