Insightful Op-Ed on the colossal failure of The War on Drugs and the current political climate favoring policies based on science and common sense over the knee-jerk reactionary drug policies of the past 40 years since not-a-crook Nixon unilaterally declared a violent war against a medical problem.

Drugs Won the War (New York Times, 6/13/09)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/opinion/14kristof.html?_r=5