Pubdate: Thu, 18 Jun 2009
Source: New York Times (NY)
Page: A36
Copyright: 2009 The New York Times Company
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/298
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n616/a10.html
Author: Lawrence Shainberg

TIME TO END PROHIBITION FOR DRUGS?

To the Editor:

Thanks to Nicholas D. Kristof for saying again what so many have said
for years about the war on drugs. Given the evidence that the war on
drugs is a futile, tragic disaster, one can only paraphrase what
Winston Churchill said about democracy: Decriminalization of drugs is
the worst idea, except for all the others.

Lawrence Shainberg

Truro, Mass.
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