The arrest of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is a major symbolic victory for the United States and Mexico, but it will not change the flow of drugs as much as Colorado and Washington's experiments with marijuana legalization, writes drug policy postdoctoral fellow Nathan Jones in an op-ed.
Read the full op-ed in the Feb. 27, 2014, edition of the Houston Chronicle.
March 3, 2014, 11:58 a.m.
Nathan P. Jones, Ph.D., is a nonresident scholar in drug policy and Mexico studies at the Baker Institute and an associate professor of security studies at Sam Houston State University in the College of Criminal Justice. His research focuses on …
Brian C. Bennett is a contributing expert for the Baker Institute Drug Policy Program. He is also a business analyst for the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. Previously, he worked as a senior technologist in the …
