Drug Prohibition in the United States

In the early nineties, I'd go down to mexico, columbia, peru, and these countries, they just felt stuck between a rock and a hard place. The notion of putting law enforcement officials in charge of trying to stop a dynamic global commodities market 'just made no sense,' he says. And i think there was a pivotal moment that happened really i i think, after we won the ballod initiatives to legalize mariina in colorado and washington in 20 12. Obama had previously promised that he wanted a really start to roll back the war on drugs.