> It implies that the author either doesn't understand the meaning of the word redundant Journalists don't usually write their own headlines in newspapers. Th

> It implies that the author either doesn't understand the meaning of the word redundant Journalists don't usually write their own headlines in newspapers. That's usually the job of editors. The author used the word "obsolete" which makes more sense when understood as "it's changing the rules so radically and fast that the old way of fighting the war on drugs doesn't work any more".