This is a statement from the director of media relations of the Drug Policy Alliance, Tony Newman, making the case for legalization. What is important is where it is published, The Detroit News. More and more papers are publishing articles proposing legalization.
Newman: The war on drugs has failed | detnews.com | The Detroit News: "I have worked at the Drug Policy Alliance for almost 11 years. We believe the war on drugs is a failure. We believe substance misuse should be a health issue, not a criminal issue — and that when people struggle with drug misuse, compassion and treatment are typically more effective than punishment and prison. Fundamentally, we also believe drug prohibition doesn’t work, and that it causes much more harm than good." Oct. 7, 2010
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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