Pubdate: Fri, 23 Mar 2001
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Copyright: 2001 The Sydney Morning Herald
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Author: Paul M. Bischke
Note: Headline supplied by newshawk

US CONGRATULATIONS ON ZERO TOLERANCES APPOINTMENTS

Congratulations to Australia's Government for its appointment of 
zero-tolerance drug commissioners (Herald, March 19).

The emissaries of the US drug czar who've doubtlessly been hounding 
you on this must have appreciated your meek response to being 
brow-beaten back into the camp of Neanderthal, zero-tolerance drug 
war nations.

While Europe is forging ahead into harm minimisation policies, you're 
regressing into America's willfully unrealistic and garishly 
moralistic prohibitionism - the US sponsored "flat-earth society" for 
drug control.

Pity really.

Paul M. Bischke, Drug Policy Reform Group of Minnesota, St Paul, 
Minnesota, March 21.
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