Mexico has a new president. Is the War on Drugs over? – Forbes

“You know?” my friend said, in his serious, Texas drawl, “with all the violence taking place in Mexico, lately I’ve been getting angry at people for using drugs.”  He set his beer down on the countertop.  “Seriously,” he said, “I’ve been getting into arguments with people.”  We were standing next to the pool table in a bar named “Prohibition,” an establishment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that is licensed to serve the public alcohol, including cocktails based on recipes from the 1920s, an era when the distribution and sale of alcohol was banned in the U.S.