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War on drugs: What is it good for?
Four decades after President Nixon declared war on drugs, nearly everyone agrees it's time for a truce.

BOSTON — Four decades after President Nixon fired the first salvos, condemnation of the drug war has gone mainstream.  With trillions spent, millions incarcerated and not much evidence of progress, nearly everyone agrees it's time for a truce.

- David Case
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On Location: The drug war's newest battlefield
Violence skyrockets in Rosario, Argentina as drug gangs battle for control of a growing market.
- Ed Stocker and Angel Sastre
Drug war by the numbers (Infographic)
Here's the cost of the US government's drug strategy, in prisoners, dollars and trends.
- Nina Goldman and David Case
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In Colorado, a pot business can signal gentrification
Marijuana shops seek to be community gathering places, like cafes and bars.
- Donna Bryson
Medical Marijuana
Marijuana as medicine: public health miracle or catastrophe?
Is medical marijuana the wonder drug it's cracked up to be? Or is it corrupting the youth, as critics contend?
- Stacey Leasca
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The Complete Series

  1. War on drugs: What is it good for?

  2. On Location: The drug war's newest battlefield

  3. In Colorado, a pot business can signal gentrification

  4. Drug war by the numbers (Infographic)

  5. Marijuana as medicine: public health miracle or catastrophe?

  6. Q & A: Should the US continue the drug war?

  7. How the Sinaloa cartel won Mexico’s drug war

  8. Who won the drug war? Drugs did

  9. Hookahs, hash and the Muslim Brotherhood

  10. In conservative Pakistan, everybody must get stoned

  11. Stoned, Inc: The war on drugs' whack-a-mole problem

  12. Silk Road: Can an eBay for meth, smack and pot prevail?