How subtly appropriate that on the most festive and spiritual of our national holidays, that a Dallas Morning News front page article July Fourth should talk of the problems for Mexican democracy of our drug problem. As has often been observed, "Prohibition" ended not because alcohol use had become passe` but because illegal profits were creating a parallel government which threatened our democracy.
The contradiction between the ideals of the Untied States, embodied in our laws, and practice, evident in our consumption of those drugs the possession and not the consumption of which is made illegal represents a similar threat to democracy in Mexico and the Andes. By our supreme ideal enunciated on this day that 'all men are created equal,' we are at fault for exporting the undermining of democracy to these nations.
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