Factoids of the day: Drugged out

"The U.S. government estimates that the cultivation and trafficking of illegal drugs directly employs 450,000 people in Mexico. Unknown numbers of people, possibly in the millions, are indirectly linked to the drug industry, which has revenues estimated to be as high as $25 billion a year, exceeded only by Mexico's annual income from manufacturing and oil exports."
(Source: The Atlantic, 12.09)

"In the 40 years since U.S. President Richard Nixon declared a 'war on drugs,' the supply and use of ...