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New at Reason: Jacob Sullum on the New Anti-Drug Strategy in Afghanistan

The Obama administration's recent announcement that it will stop trying to eradicate opium poppies in Afghanistan is a long overdue admission that anti-drug efforts there are strengthening the Taliban insurgency and undermining stability. But Senior Editor Jacob Sullum argues that the reasons cited for the policy shift  apply more broadly than the administration is willing to acknowledge, indicting not just poppy pulling in Afghanistan but an international drug control regime that has been an expensive flop for nearly a century.

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