Former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan Says the War on Drugs has Failed
Category: POLITICS
In the United States, while there are shifting patterns of drug use, there is no simple relationship to the severity of the nation's drug laws. The caveat is that from the European study, relaxing penalties had equally unpredictable results. Annan's statement needs that bit of context. We rate this claim Mostly True.
By Jon Greenberg, Contributor, 2016-04-23