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What the war on drugs really costs

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Down the drain

The drug market has caused problems for the world for decades.

The old approach, still in use today, was to simply make the substances illegal to hopefully suppress the market.

But does it really work?

Many experts say “no”.

People will do drugs whether they're illegal or not, and where there's a market, there are sellers.

Without regulation, things get bad.