both in marijuana and when it comes to other drugs is if we're willing to declare the war on drugs not a success to say that something has failed, what are we doing instead. legalization is not really an option for harder drugs. and so the kind of questions that the president elect of mexico are confronting and that police commissioners are confronting in the united states are what is a kind of mored in earn way to take the war on drugs if we're willing to say that things have not worked so far, but we're not willing to radically legalize. >> general mccaffrey, there was a blue ribbon panel this summer that concluded that the war on drugs has failed, although they say with devastating consequences. to benjamin's point, is there a more modern way to fight this war? >> well, by the way, i congratulate him on his article. it's one of the more thoughtful things i've read in a spate of nonsense that has been