COCAINE IN CANADA

Science dictates that if you squeeze one part of a half-filled
balloon, the air moves to another part of the balloon. But it doesn't go away.

That is the phenomenon we see at play here, as the war in Mexico
directly impacts the drug trade in Canada.

Without dissipating demand -- through a combination of drug treatment
and education programs and possibly a liberalization of anti-drug
laws -- the untreated addiction, corruption, greed and, as we see
here, violence are physically incapable of doing anything more than
merely shifting location.

Joel Furman

Los Angeles