More on Merida Initiative

Blake Hounshell of the foreign Policy Magazine posts on his blog here about the wrong-headed approach to the drugs control policy in the America's. Similar to the views expressed in the last post on this blog, he says that its clear that a doubling up in a failed policy will yield no better results. Militarization of the fight works perfectly into the hands of the cartels. It is pretty clear that the failures are clear to many in the administration but nobody will broach the issue of abandoning the fight in its present form. The worst policy is to fail to accept when faced with a failed policy.