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One wonders how many "real journalists" in USA will see this sad event as an occasion to bask in the reflected glory of those who really have spoken truth to power, and how many will instead call out the actual reason that gangsters have power: USA's foolish and evil drug prohibition.

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Yup.. the social and economic cost of this futile war is insane.. This talk really helped me realize how wrong we've been about this issue: https://www.ted.com/talks/ethan_nadelmann_why_we_need_to_end...

That starts out strong, with the accounts of various on-the-ground drug warriors saying "the problem has to be solved on the other end, because it sure can't be solved here!" He kind of lost the thread as the talk went on. It would have been more effective to really dig in on examples of destroyed lives, both north and south of the border. Statistics by themselves are less compelling.

Also I was distracted by trying to figure out whether that was a really small mustache or some sort of birthmark.

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