On November 18, 2010, in Hermosillo, I presented a conference entitled “The Fallen War on Organized Crime.” I said then that the prohibition without social support does not suppress illegal markets, but creates them; that corruption is not the exception, but the system; and that organized crime had already colonized Mexico’s politics, economy, culture and religion. I concluded that the only way was decriminalization, as Portugal demonstrated by …
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On November 18, 2010, in Hermosillo, I presented a conference entitled “The Fallen War on Organized Crime.” I said then that the prohibition without social support does not suppress illegal markets, but creates them; that corruption is not the exception, but the system; and that organized crime had already colonized Mexico’s politics, economy, culture and religion. I concluded that the only way was decriminalization, as Portugal demonstrated by …