Pubdate: Thu, 31 May 2012
Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
Copyright: 2012 Los Angeles Times
Contact:  http://www.latimes.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/248
Author: Don Hanley

ENDING A DEADLY DRUG WAR

This article has only one line about drugs heading north to the U.S. 
Nearly all of the wealth generated by the drug trade comes from 
Americans, so in a real sense, we share responsibility for those 
50,000 deaths over the last six years. The number is similar to all 
the American deaths we had in the Vietnam War.

We need to escalate the dialogue about legalizing drugs in our 
country, as Portugal did in 2001. That country reduced the number of 
drug addicts and its prison population. Money is now spent on 
rehabilitation, not on prisons.

We must stop what we are doing. "If what we are doing isn't working, 
let us do more of it" is insanity.

Don Hanley

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