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This is The Political Scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Friday, January 3rd.

I'm Curtis Fox, producer of this program in this week for Dorothy Wickenden.

In 1973, while President Richard Dixon was winding down the war in Vietnam,

he set his sights on another enemy.

This is one area where we cannot have budget cuts

because we must wage what I have called total war

against public enemy number one in the United States, the problem of dangerous drugs.

In the magazine this week, Mattathias Schwartz writes about the drug war as seen from the

mosquito coast in Honduras. Patrick Radinkeef has written about Mexican drug cartels and about

the new law to legalize marijuana in Washington State. They both join me now. Patrick, just a few days

ago, it became legal to buy marijuana for recreational use in Colorado, and Washington State

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