“Plan Columbia,” which was instituted by the Clinton Administration as an attempt to eradicate cocaine supplies in Columbia by fumigating coca farms, has resulted in a near zero change in the price and purity of the drug on American streets, according to a New York Times story. Overall, there is as much coca being grown today in Columbia as there ever was, and more is being supplied to the world than is being demanded. To put it another way, tons of American taxpayer money is being spent on “Plan Columbia,” yet cocaine is as available as ever. We might as well be setting that money on fire.

This is not to mention the political instability that the War on Drugs breeds in the region, as the current president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, is the former president of the coca growers union.

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