1.   This would bring about a de facto prohibition that will make drug prohibition seem like small beer.

2.   But neither should we, nor do we have to, tolerate the needless casualties of drug prohibition.

3.   Crop-substitution programs designed to persuade Third World peasants to grow legal crops cannot compete with the profits that drug prohibition makes inevitable.

4.   Gary Johnson, the Republican governor of New Mexico, will discuss the drawbacks of drug prohibition.

5.   Perhaps the most pernicious aspect of the drug war, in fact, is the crime and violence that drug prohibition generates.

6.   The challenge is thus making drug prohibition work better, but with a focus on reducing the negative consequences of both drug use and prohibitionist policies.

7.   Those are some of the costs of drug prohibition.