Reply #3: With some luck this will mark the beginning of the end, rather than the end of the beginning. [View All]

[gbscar]

Bolivia's example should be followed even in countries where indigenous groups aren't the cultural or social majority. Why? Because the prohibition of the coca leaf in particular and even of its derived "hard" drugs has not done us any good.

So many lives have been sacrificed and so many resources have been spent worlwide but especially in Latin America as a result of this "war on drugs" and prohibition as a whole, which has never worked and even at its best depends on a senseless puritan motivation: legislating morality instead of actual public welfare.

At its worst, we really are just seeing the rich get richer in the name of greed as they profit from this fiasco.