US waves white flag on disastrous "war on drugs"

If this is true, then it's rather important and has implications for the "war on terror" too. "War" declared by Nixon in 1969 compared to Prohibition in this piece, and considered just as disastrous. Towards the end, he accuses the CIA of ferrying drugs around in the same planes used for extraordinary rendition and names two crashed planes founf to have tons of cocaine aboard. Watch this space..."The war on drugs has spread corruption and organised crime throughout the world. Discuss the case that stopping it will also diminish corruption and organised crime." Hmmmm