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.
Jerry Epstein is the president of the Drug Policy Forum of Texas and a contributing expert in drug policy at the Baker Institute. In 1995, he co-founded the Drug Policy Forum of Texas with G. Alan Robison, retired chairman of …
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 …
