> The drug war should already have taught us that it's counterproductive to view offenders as generic nuisances rather than people to be negotiated with. The l

> The drug war should already have taught us that it's counterproductive to view offenders as generic nuisances rather than people to be negotiated with. The lesson of the drug war is twofold: it is immoral to dictate what a person does with their body to the extent they are not harming society, and it is impractical to try to limit the harm drug use does to society by criminalizing drug use and sale. However that is not equivalent to saying, for example, that we ought to try to reason with and come to an understanding with vicious drug cartels. I was proud that I could vote to legalize marijuana in Washington State, and I hope it's a small step on the road to a total dismantling of the War On Drugs. But the point of all that is to weaken the cartels so that they may be destroyed. I would happily bury every member of Los Zetas at the center of the Earth. So it goes with poaching syndicates.