Jacob Sullum on Drug War Refugees From Latin America

As thousands of
children fleeing violence in Central America seek
refuge in the United States, some commentators are blaming
American drug users. “If there weren’t a lot of Americans seeking
marijuana and heroin and cocaine,” says former Labor
Secretary Robert Reich, “there would not be a drug war.”

Wall Street Journal columnist Mary Anastasia
O’Grady seems to agree. “This crisis was born of American
self-indulgence,” she writes.

If so, Jacob Sullum argues, it was not the self-indulgence of
people who consume arbitrarily proscribed intoxicants. It was the
self-indulgence of prohibitionists who insist on exporting their
disastrous policy to other countries.

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