Dealing Death and Drugs: The Big Business of Dope in the U.S. and Mexico

In response to the violence destroying Juarez, two elected officials from El Paso ending marijuana prohibition as sound public policy.

The War on Drugs doesn't work. This became obvious to El Paso City Representatives Susie Byrd and Beto O'Rourke when they started to ask questions about why El Paso's sister city Ciudad Juárez has become the deadliest city in the world—8,000-plus deaths since January 1, 2008. Byrd and O'Rourke soon realized American drug use and United States' failed War on D...