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Newshawk: allan
Webpage: http://drugsense.org/url/CRXvVvda
Pubdate: Sat, 23 Feb 2008
Source: Star-Gazette (NY)
Copyright: 2008sStar-Gazette
Contact:
Website: http://www.stargazette.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1005
Author: Peter Christ
Note: Peter Christ is a retired police captain and a founder and board
member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. He lives in Cazenovia,
N.Y. http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php
DON'T TAX DRUGS, LEGALIZE THEM
The issue of taxing illegal drugs put forward by Gov. Eliot Spitzer is
a fantasy of bizarre proportions.
I have a better idea. Let's regulate them. Seriously. Let's legalize
all illegal drugs, place them under strict controls of production and
distribution and allow our medical community to deal with the health
problems of addiction. Let's take all the money wasted on waging the
unwinnable War on ( some ) Drugs and spend it on intervention, health
screening and treatment. Let's just bypass the criminals and
international cartels ( that are totally in control of the black market
of illegal drugs ) and free up our police forces to deal with real
crimes like theft and assault. Brilliant.
Of course, critics of legalization will put forth their usual "but
what about the children?" I say, "OK, what about the children?" Think
about these basic facts: since Richard Nixon first declared the War on
Drugs 37 years ago, drugs are in every community in the nation. Drugs
today are so prevalent we cannot keep them out of our jails and
prisons, let alone out of our communities or our children's schools.
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MAP posted-by: Derek
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