  The costs of drug prohibition  Let them chew coca  Beware talk
of victory in Latin America’s drug wars  See article  Readers'
comments    Legalization would mean bankruptcy for the illegal
drug industry within a couple of months. Cocaine, heroine, pot,
none of it is harder or more expensive in principle to make or
grow than say tobacco or aspirin coffee or whatever. 99.9% of
the costs are because it is an illegal cottage industry.  As for
violence Marky, um we all remember the pile of rotting corpses
left in the wake of the hostile takeover of Quaker Oats by
Kelloggs a while back. And the toothpaste wars between Unilever
and Proctor and Gamble?!?! Oh, the humanity!  Maths for fun  The
whole "save the children" argument is getting kind of tired too.
After "didn't inhale" "haven't committed any felonies on US soil
recently" and "did a little blow, too, when I could afford it":
what, is becoming President now seen as a drug-induced failure
of ambition?   As Steven D Levitt wrote in Freakonomics, the
average st