The decades-long global war on drugs has failed and it's time to shift the focus from mass incarceration to public health and human rights, according to a new report endorsed by five Nobel Prize-winning economists. The report, titled "Ending the Drug Wars" and put together by the London School of Economics' IDEAS center, looks at the high costs and unintended consequences of drug prohibitions on public health and safety, national security and law enforcement. – Huffington Post Dominant Social Theme: Maybe the war on drugs was a mistake. Free-Market Analysis: This is a new dominant social theme. The old one would be: Drugs are evil.