Jerry O’Driscoll alerts us to this excellent Cato video featuring a young El Paso citizen, Beto O’Rourke, a former El Paso councilman who had just been introduced by Mary O’Grady, a WSJ feature writer. Like Prohibition the only accomplishment of the war on drugs is increased gangland crime and wasted money on enforcement. Oh, there is the matter of Eric Holder’s gun running and the possibility of Mexico becoming a failed government. Those aside, this video brings the drug war up close and personal.

The “war” will of course fail. The lives ruined and wasted in the process will be the price. Perhaps it is time for a change. Like alcohol, regulation and taxation may indeed be preferable. We learned a lesson with the 21st Amendment. Can we relearn that lesson, and soon?