Ian Weetman, SKE Emerging Markets LLC

Article is spot on. The war on drugs will ultimately be as effective as Prohibition. The U.S. is happy for market forces to prevail in just about every conceivable area of society except this one. For instance, we are allowed to buy guns which kill others, but not drugs with which to kill ourselves, if we so chose. As this war is prosecuted in a way which costs few “American” lives and is conducted out of sight of the average voter, there is as yet no momentum to tackle this appalling hypocrisy.