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August 16, 2012

Mexico's Hopeless Drug War

Malcolm Beith, New Statesman

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Beheadings, torture, shootings uploaded to YouTube - the 'war on drugs' has ravaged Mexico. But as the US considers treating the cartels as terrorist threats, the one solution it won’t consider is decriminalisation.

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