Over the past several months, the Trump administration has ramped up the War on Drugs by attacking boats from Venezuela that were allegedly bringing fentanyl to the United States. Much commentary has questioned the legality, humanity, and effectiveness of these measures and also expressed bewilderment at the relation between these actions and President Trump’s pardon of Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former president of Honduras, who was serving a 45-year sentence for cocaine trafficking.
Yet most discussion misses the fundamental point: the War on Drugs is, and always has been, a terrible policy.
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