The Forty-Year Quagmire: An Exit Strategy for the War on Drugs | The Nation

The war on drugs is a bust.

This is how the war on drugs will end: with elder statesmen calling for radical change, and millions of victims of the drug war saying enough is enough, and fiscal conservatives tiring of the expense, and civil rights advocates embracing reform as part of their agenda, and young people rejecting the war as the folly of their elders, and elected officials deciding it’s time to step out—and tens of millions of parents concluding that their children and the future of our society are better served by policies that rely dramatically less on criminal sanctions and harsh punishments and much more on science, compassion, health and common sense.

via The Forty-Year Quagmire: An Exit Strategy for the War on Drugs | The Nation.