President Behind Mexico’s War on Drugs Admitted It Was ‘Unwinnable’

See the original article on Vice At the height of Mexico’s deadly war on drug cartels, its chief architect privately admitted it was “unwinnable” and that legalising drugs was the only way out, VICE News has learned. That architect is Felipe Calderón, Mexico’s former president. Calderón was unrepentant in his

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Nick Clegg: The rise in opioid deaths is an indictment of our blinkered drugs policy

Read original article on iNews Last year, nearly 90 people a week in the UK died as a result of drug use – the highest number on record. More than 60 per cent of these deaths involved an opioid – that is, a drug derived from the opium poppy or based

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