A clearer example of the confused logic that dominates the drug wars could not easily be found: a new UN report shows that drug cultivation plateaued in 2007, after a big jump in 2006. The official reaction:
''The cocaine industry is under stress,'' said John Walters, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. ``It can't produce at the same level.''Wait a second; this report is supposedly good news precisely because the cocaine industry produced at the very same level. As with almost everything related to official drug policy, this is insanity. We have gotten so used to losing that even a tie is seen as a knockout. (Insert Kafka reference here.)
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