Drug barons are winning the war because our battle tactics are dopey

The Americans tried to ban alcohol in the 1920s, but it gave rise to the golden era of the gangsters.

When it was repealed, the social decline that some predicted never happened. But the US was left with the organised crime thatthe ban had spawned

A RECENT UN Office for Drugs Control (UNODC) report purportedly found that Ireland has the biggest increase in cocaine use in Europe. In the light of the seizure off the Cork coast, few would probably have any difficulty believing this, but the author of the report, Thomas Pietschmann, sounded distinctly uneasy on Morning Ireland.