How to stop the drug wars

From: Economist.com
Prohibition has failed; legalisation is the least bad solution
A HUNDRED years ago a group of foreign diplomats gathered in Shanghai for the first-ever international effort to ban trade in a narcotic drug. On February 26th 1909 they agreed to set up the International Opium Commission—just a few decades after Britain had fought a war with China to assert its right to peddle the stuff. Many other bans of mood-altering drugs have followed. In 1998 the UN General Assembly committed member countries to achieving a “drug-free world” and to “eliminating or significantly reducing” the production of opium, cocaine and cannabis by 2008.
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My Comments:
This is an issue which particularly hits home for me. There are so many arguments in favor of decriminalization I could go of for days writing about it here. You will definitely see a great deal of posts and discussion here on this topic. For now, I'll leave the arguments to the article above.