<p class="quote"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">A hundred years ago a group of foreign diplomats gathered in Shanghai for the first-ever international effort to ban trade in a narcotic drug. On February 26th 1909 they agreed to set up the International Opium Commission&#8212;just a few decades after Britain had fought a war with China to assert its right to peddle the stuff. Many other bans of mood-altering drugs have followed. In 1998 the UN General Assembly committed member countries to achieving a &#8220;drug-free world&#8221; and to &#8220;eliminating or significantly reducing&#8221; the production of opium, cocaine and cannabis by 2008.</span></p> ProseBeforeHos prose before hos, economist, end drug war, legalize drugs the-feed 0 2009-10-22T11:58:26-04:00 <p>The <span style="font-style: italic;">whole </span>drug war.</p> 11 6231 ending-the-drug-war 2009-10-22T11:58:40-04:00 true false false false false Ending the drug war 2009-10-22T11:58:41-04:00 http://www.prosebeforehos.com/article-of-the-day/03/10/legalization-is-the-answer/ 84 0 0