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It contrasts unrealistic goals—such as an alcohol-free or drug-free world—with evidence showing drug production, purity, and prices remain comparable to a decade earlier. 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K   |  |\n|  | A G A I N   |  |\n\nProhibition has failed—again.Instead of treating the demand for illegaldrugs as a market,and addicts as patients,policymakers the world overhave boosted the profits of drug lords and fostered narcostates thatwould frighten Al Capone.Finally,a smarter drug control regime thatvalues reality over rhetoric is rising to replace the “war”on drugs.  \n# “The Global War on Drugs Can Be Won”\n\nNo,it can't.A“drug-free world,\"which theUnited Nations describes as a realistic goal,is nomore attainable than an “alcohol-free world”—andno one has talked about that with a straight facesince the repeal of Prohibition in the United Statesin 1933.Yet futile rhetoric about winning a“waron drugs”persists,despite mountains of evidencedocumenting its moral and ideological bankruptcy.When the U.N.General Assembly Special Sessionon drugs convened in 1998,it committed to “elimi-nating or significantly reducing the illicit cultivationof the coca bush,the cannabis plant and the opiumpoppy by the year 2008”and to “achieving signifi-cant and measurable results in the field of demandreduction.”But today,global production and con-sumption of those drugs are roughly the same asthey were a decade ago;meanwhile,many producershave become more efficient,and cocaine and heroinhave become purer and cheaper.  \nIt's always dangerous when rhetoric drives policy—and especially so when“war on drugs”rhetoric leadsthe public to accept collateral casualties that wouldnever be permissible in civilian law enforcement,much less public health.Politicians still talk of elim-inating drugs from the Earth as though their use is aplague on humanity.But drug control is not like dis-ease control,for the simple reason that there's no pop-ular demand for smallpox or polio.Cannabis andopium have been grown throughout much of theworld for millennia.The same is true for coca inLatin America.Methamphetamine and other syn-thetic drugs can be produced anywhere.Demand forparticular llicit drugs waxes and wanes,dependingnot just on availability but also fads,fashion,culture,and competition from alternative means of stimulationand distraction.The relative harshness of drug lawsand the intensity of enforcement matter surprisinglylittle,except in totalitarian states.After all,rates ofillegal drug use in the United States are the same as,or higher than,Europe,despite America's much morepunitive policies.  \n# \"We Can Reduce the Demand for Drugs\"\n\nGood luck.Reducing the demand for illegaldrugs seenis to make sense.But the desire to alterone's state of consciousness,and to use psychoactivedrugs to do so,is nearly universal—and mostly nota problem.There's virtually never been a drug-freesociety,and more drugs are discovered and devisedevery year.Demand-reduction efforts that rely onhonest education and positive alternatives to drug useare helpful,but not when they devolve into unrealis-tic,“zero tolerance”policies.  \nAs with sex,abstinence from drugs is the best wayto avoid trouble,but one always needs a fallbackstrategy for those who can't or won't refrain.“Zerotolerance”policies deter some people,but they alsodramatically increase the harms and costs for thosewho don't resist.Drugs become more potent,druguse becomes more hazardous,and people who usedrugs are marginalized in ways that serve no one.  \nThe better approach is not demand reduction but\"harm reduction.\"Reducing drug use is fine,but it'snot nearly as important as reducing the death,dis-ease,crime,and suffering associated with both drug  \nKATHY COLLINS/GETTY IMAGES  \nmisuse and failed prohibitionist policies.With respectto legal drugs,such as alcohol and cigarettes,harmreduction means promoting responsible drinkingand designated drivers,or persuading people toswitch to nicotine patches,chewing gums,andsmokeless tobacco.With respect to ill","cbCaifwzX4oZxHEA","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifwzX4oZxHEA","pdf",428689,"English","# The Global War on Drugs Can Be Won\n## We Can Reduce the Demand for 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