Narconomics

Does a good job of covering the various reasons why the current approach to drugs is failing. None of it feels particularly surprising almost 10 years later but it's worth a refresher on why these policies fail on economic as well as moral grounds.

What would have elevated this analysis for me would be to further probe into the way in which the War on Drugs is driven by political interests outside of just protecting society from dangerous drugs. It's a cruel policy and the cruelty is partly the point here as it's useful to have a militarised border that separates more impoverished nations (amongst other benefits). A sensible book with sensible suggestions but nothing more than that.