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http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/05/30/should-latin-america-end-the-war-on-drugs/stop-blindly-following-a-failed-policyThursday, May 31, 2012
Stop Blindly Following a Failed Policy - Room for Debate - NYTimes.com - Otto Pérez Molina is the president of Guatemala. - In 1961 the international community signed a United Nations treaty that reflected an inter-governmental consensus on how to fight drugs all over the world. Basically, the consensus was the following: drug consumption is very damaging for human beings, and the best way for preventing this type of consumption is to prohibit the production, trafficking and use of drugs. Today, 51 years after reaching this consensus, something is pretty clear: drugs are prohibited but drugs continue to be consumed in quantities so large that the global market is calculated in hundreds of billions of dollars. In other words, the global consensus is far from being successful. Actually, I prefer to call it what it really is: a failure.
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