From: [j n r] at [igc.apc.org] (Jim Rosenfield)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.drugs
Subject: Re: Hoover Inst/Drug Law Policy
Date: 17 Mar 93 03:57:00 GMT


/* Written  7:57 pm  Mar 16, 1993 by jnr in igc:norml.hemp */
>NEW TACTICS URGED IN U.S. DRUG WAR
>Stanford luminaries send message to Clinton
>(San Jose Merc News, March 11, 1993, posted without permission)

>The United States' war on drugs is a billion-dollar bust that
needs to
>be replaced with preventive education and treatment.
>.......

Well, I found the right party, the guy who wrote the
aforementioned resolution and who organized the event, Cliff
Schaeffer.  Here is the text of the resoltuion.  More news on this
soon.

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			 RESOLUTION

     Whereas, the overall situation regarding the use of drugs in
our society and the crime and misery that accompanies it has
continued to deteriorate for  several decades; and

     Whereas, our society has continued to attempt, at enormous
financial cost, to resolve drug abuse problems through the
criminal justice system, with the accompanying increases of
prisons and numbers of inmates; and

     Whereas, the huge untaxed revenues generated by the illicit
drug trade are undermining legitimate governments world-wide; and

      Whereas, the present system has spawned a cycle of hostility
by the incarceration of  disproportionate numbers of
African-Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups; and

     Whereas, the number of people who have contracted AIDS,
hepatitis, and other diseases from contaminated hypodermic needles
is epidemic under our present system; and

     Whereas, in our society's zeal to pursue our criminal
approach, legitimate medical uses for the relief of pain and
suffering of patients have been suppressed.

     Therefore be it resolved that our society must recognize drug
use and abuse as the medical and social problems that they are and
that they must be treated with medical and social solutions; and

     Further be it resolved that an objective commission be
immediately empowered by Congress to recommend revision of the
drug laws of these United States in order to reduce the harm our
current policies are causing.

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