In the midst of a raging heroin epidemic, Americans just got more bad news: Colombian cocaine production jumped from 250 metric tons (MT) in 2014 to 420 MT in 2015—a 68 percent increase in one year for the nation supplying 95 percent of the cocaine in the United States.

This is the latest dangerous failure caused by the Obama administration’s willful neglect and mishandling of U.S. drug policy both at home and abroad.

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