My understanding from reading Narco News, and the main reason I give a damn about ending the war on drugs, is that the policies of the war on drugs are a major tool by governments to prevent people from addressing the worldwide problem of the unfair distribution of wealth.  That's certainly the case in the U.S., where a huge portion of the young men of our most clear-seeing and radical group, African-Americans, are locked up on drug laws.  In Latin America, in many places, larger and larger numbers of people know that, in order to survive, they will need to throw off the control of their economies by the rich, and that unequalled representative of the rich, the U.S. government.  Drug war policies here are a major part of repressive governments' efforts to criminalize social movements.

That's the battle here.  But if you have a more direct tactic to bring fairness to the world economy than trying to take some of the pressure of the U.S.-imposed drug war off those fighting for fairness most effectively -- the people and social movements of Latin America -- I'm on board with that, too.  Let me know.