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As a recent NACLA Report (“Reimagining Drug Policy in the Americas,” Summer 2014), made clear, the international tide on drug control policy is beginning to turn. While the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS) this past April fell short of reformers’ expectations, it was accompanied by a high-profile call for rethinking the so-called “war on drugs” by current and former Latin American heads of state. But even as a general consensus has emerged that the US–led war on drugs has failed by its own standards—many illegal drugs are cheaper, stronger, and more plentiful now than ever before—much of the debate continues to avoid the underlying economic factors that keep not only the drug trade itself, but also the militarized war against it, going strong. Dawn Paley’s remarkable book Drug War

Capitalism (AK Press, 2014) tackles this question head on, carefully …