Getting High on Failure: The War on Drugs Is Just Three Words

Meanwhile the heroin factory that is Afghanistan keeps pumping.

The declaration of War on Drugs was as doomed for failure as the prohibition in the 1920s. History will be the judge if anyone who dares to write an alternative to what the US wants to jot down manages to stay alive. This week Bill Hicks, George Carlin, and Chris Rock deliver the funny, while Julien Mercille (expert in US foreign policy from University College Dublin and the author of the book “Cruel Harvest: US Intervention in the Afghan Drug Trade”) shares his professional opinion.