Many things have happened since this book was first published in 2001. Unfortunately, there is no particular need to update many of the stories or much of the data, because since that time we have compounded our problems by continuing to follow the same failed and hopeless policy of Drug Prohibition that we have been actively employing for the past four decades or more. So although much has happened, not much has really changed. Thus the arguments previously made are just as forceful now as they were then.6 To highlight that point, at the beginning of my presentations to various groups, I almost always ask whether we are in better shape today than we were five years ago regarding the critical issue of drug abuse and all of the crime and misery that go with it. And almost never do any people in the audience raise their hands and say that we are. Well, if it’s true that we’re no better off—and it is—then we also must realize that we have no legitimate expectation of being in better shape next year than we are today—unless we change our approach. Without question, things have indeed gotten worse during these past ten years. So this book has now been updated to show that the number of people arrested and incarcerated for drug offenses has continued to climb almost unabated; that the problems caused specifically by drug money have continued to reach terrifying levels, including the unprecedented but entirely foreseeable violence and corruption that has fallen on Mexico; and that all the while these sometimes dangerous and addicting drugs have become even more available for anyone who wants them, especially our children