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Pretty much anyone that knows me knows how I feel about this ridiculous War on Drugs that the United States keep propagating throughout Latin America. It's ineffective at stopping the problems associated with drug use, and it's certainly not decreasing the demand. Abroad, it's wiping out local economies and fueling civil wars. In the US, it's making criminals out of regular folks and wasting billions of taxpayer dollars.

And this is bipartisan folly. It's a rare politician that doesn't want to jump on the bandwagon and claim that she's being "hard on crime," and it seems most US citizens eat that stuff right up.

Why is it that Americans raise such a stink when they find a few thousand dollars going to pay for a woman to roll around naked on a mat while being covered in honey, but any outrage about throwing away billions on ineffective programs never gets any traction? Why?

Okay, I must admit. A naked woman rolling around in honey is much more novel than government corruption.

But my limited experience in Mexico so far has shown that their sucking up to the United States and our drug policies has decreased neither demand nor availability. And the majority of people there see the whole thing as an American problem, because that's where the demand is. Honestly, Mexicans have much bigger problems to deal with in their daily lives. Yet it's Mexican citizens that have to get off their cross-country busses every time they pass into another state so that the military can rummage through their bags.

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