Arguments for Legalization
- Arguments for Legalization 1
- “One sheriff in Anderson, South Carolina, for example, set up a program encouraging individuals to make money by buying drugs and turning in drug dealers. The program includes billboards that read: ‘Need Cash? Turn in a dope dealer,’ and it promises to reward informants with up to 25 percent of the money or assets seized.”
- Arguments for Legalization 2
- “What Larry Martz calls in Newsweek the ‘dirty little secret’ about crack is that it is possible to smoke it without becoming addicted.”
- Arguments for Legalization 3
- “In 1962 the White House Conference on Narcotic and Drug Abuse stated: ‘It is the opinion of the Panel that the hazards of marihuana per se have been exaggerated and that long criminal sentences imposed on an occasional user or possessor of the drug are in poor social perspective.’”
- Arguments for Legalization 4
- In February 1990, for example, the National Transportation Safety Board released a study that board members described as the most detailed ever conducted of drug and alcohol abuse in interstate trucking.
- Arguments for Legalization 5
- “Almost every social problem (especially crime) is portrayed as and perceived of as a drug problem.”
- Arguments for Legalization 6
- “A 1988 report by the American Bar Association noted: Police, prosecutors and judges told the committee that they have been unsuccessful in making a significant impact on the importation, sale and use of illegal drugs, despite devoting much of their resources to the arrest, prosecution and trial of drug offenders.”
- Costs of the War on Drugs
- “The official figure for the drug war for fiscal year 1990 was $9.5 billion.”
- Why Drugs are Still Illegal
- I’ve seen a lot of theories thrown around lately as to why drugs are illegal today. A lot of them boil down to conspiracy theories. Personally, I don’t put too much faith in that way of thinking. But anyways, I have some opinions from some really different viewpoints typed in that I thought everybody would like to see.
