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What is the true cost of marijuana prohibition? After four decades of the war on drugs, none of its stated goals have been achieved. Gangs are richer, more powerful, increasingly violent and the availability and use of marijuana has only gone up.

From Wall Street to Oakland, recent events prove the campaign isn't just futile. It's a deadly waste of resources

When President Obama arrives in Colombia for a hemispheric summit this weekend, he will hear Latin American leaders say that the U.S.-orchestrated war on drugs, which criminalizes drug use and employs military tactics to fight gangs, is failing and that sweeping changes need to be considered.
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Australia's sitting foreign minister, Bob Carr, and a former head of the federal police, Mick Palmer, are among a group of prominent Australians behind a new campaign to end the war on drugs Down Under.
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