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Pubdate: Tue, 23 Jun 2009
Source: Modesto Bee, The (CA)
Copyright: 2009 The New York Times News Service
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Website: http://www.modbee.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/271
Author: Nicholas Kristof
TIME TO FLY WHITE FLAG ON WAR ON DRUGS
This year marks the 40th anniversary of President Nixon's start of the
war on drugs, and it now appears that drugs have won.
"We've spent a trillion dollars prosecuting the war on drugs," Norm
Stamper, a former police chief of Seattle, told me. "What do we have
to show for it? Drugs are more readily available, at lower prices and
higher levels of potency. It's a dismal failure."
For that reason, he favors legalization of drugs, perhaps by the
equivalent of state liquor stores or registered pharmacists. Other
experts favor keeping drug production and sales illegal but
decriminalizing possession, as some foreign countries have done.
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MAP posted-by: Richard Lake
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