Mark Kleiman and I go Bloggingheads on drugs and HIV in the Russian Federation, poppy eradication in Afghanistan, Mexican drug violence, dealing with drug users and drug sellers in United States.

[Cross-posted at The Reality-Based Community]

Independent since 1969.

The Washington Monthly is nonprofit and reader-supported. Your tax-deductible gift pays for the reporting you just read.

Harold Pollack is the Helen Ross Professor at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago.