A turning tide
▻http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2014/05/drugs-policy
REPORTS can be notable both for what they say and for the people they are endorsed by. A report on drugs policy that will be launched later today in London is a case in point. “Ending the Drug Wars” is published by the London School of Economics, and contains a series of articles by members of the LSE’s expert group on the economics of drugs policy. The launch is being attended by Mauricio López Bonillo, the interior minister of Guatemala, one of a band of countries in Latin America which are openly challenging the old orthodoxy on the war on drugs.