Prominent Latin Americans Considering the Legalization of Cocaine

Drug-related executions have surged in parts of Latin America, sparking calls for new solutions to the drug problem.

What does celebrated Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa have in common with the president of Guatemala and the editors of The Economist magazine, not to mention a century-old U.S. toothache remedy?

Simple: legal cocaine.

The Peruvian is for it, as is Guatemalan leader Otto Perez, as well as a growing assembly of influential Latin Americans.

A welcome development, in my opinion.