INTERNATIONAL: "Drugs: Virtually legal; In many countries, full jails, stretched budgets and a general weariness with the war on drugs have made prohibition harder to enforce," The Economist, 14 November 2009.

Fits very nicely with my recent WPR column: Europe and Latin America moving way out ahead on this, but signs that more and more states in the U.S. will be experimenting along these lines.

The surprising victim of the global economic downturn: the war on drugs.