Walters calls War on Drugs a failure

Well you won't see this in the US media, but your favorite drug czar and mine, John Walters publicly admitted the war on some drugs has failed at a press conference in Mexico City.

Mr Walters said in Mexico that billions of dollars of investment over many years have failed to dent the flow of Latin American cocaine onto US streets.
"We have not yet seen in all these efforts what we're hoping for on the supply side, which is a reduction in availability," he said.

He of course claims all that is going to change this year, for sure.
Just back from touring the world's third-largest recipient of US military aid, Colombia, he also found the need to defend the failed Plan Colombia under which the money for military aid is being funnelled in the guise of funding coca eradication programs.

"We have a history in the United States of not following through on programmes like this," he said.

Could that be because they simply don't work? Walters says he hopes the supply of cocaine will be diminished this year. We suggest he does not start holding his breath.

Correspondents point out that whenever the US has been able to cut coca production anywhere in Latin America, the shortfall has been made up by increases elsewhere in the region. Production has notably risen in Peru, the world's next biggest producer of cocaine after Colombia.

Walters further admits, "anti-narcotics raids had been successful in removing a number of important cartel leaders but had not led to any shortage." As if it ever has. They know they can't stop supply and they found out they can't incarcerate away the demand. Yet he still insists on continuing the status quo.

What does he care? He's making a good living at being drug czar and it's your tax dollars he's spending on this abomination.