than forty thousand mexicans killed in the last five years and a recent report by the global commission on drug policy denounced the recalcitrant violence calling the global war on drugs a failure stop the war on drugs let's be more constructive in trying to reduce the consumption if you look only to the production the market is so profitable that all time to be someone which would be capable to risk his life to continue to be traffic and indeed profit margins related to the drug industry are huge and is the main factor that sustains it and many argue that if some drugs were legalized it would help put a cap on their price and the stop to the incessant violence all the while purging the economy of a black market making drugs more available as this report suggests will make it harder to keep our communities healthy and safe the fact that each dollar that an american spends on drugs goes to fuel a juggernaut of corruption and violence is no revelation and neither is the fact that the u.s. war on drugs has not managed to keep that while and said nor yield any substantial results but whether or not legali

drug war. recently the global policy commission -- or global commission on drug policy put out a report strongly arguing for decriminalization, president carter pushes an op-ed in in the "new york times" about decriminalizeation. you should look through it to see what are really the deep issues. i think -- i will try to leave it there. otherwise i will talk too long. the book contains -- the initial part of this talk provides an analytical structure of sorts to question some of the principle myths, i think these myths of cops and robbers, a true drug war, and if you're dead, your dirty. those myths have to be shattered before any kind of deep understanding and thus effective political action can be engaged in. the book largely chronicles the experiences of mexican journalists working for local media in some of the most -- in monterrey, and also profiled several endemic cases where there were survivors to speak with and family members of people who fell victim to the violence. i tried to take a side view and not simply go back and forth between the state, the police, who have easy hack certificat