Drug war will change course in 2013

Andrés Oppenheimer
The Miami Herald (US)
Thursday, April 26, 2012

obama-cumbre-santosWhen the recent Summit of the Americas in Colombia decided to commission a study on whether to decriminalize drugs, many thought that would be the end of it, and the whole thing would be quickly forgotten. Well, maybe not. For starters, it was the first time that such a large group of heads of state ventured into that once taboo area. And there are several other non-related factors that may contribute to put decriminalization in the front burner later this year, or in early 2013