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To: Brumar89 who wrote (648694)	3/24/2012 3:06:53 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) of 1583403

>> If cocaine were legal, why would we need any treatment programs? Especially mandatory ones? I think the Portugal model is pretty close to right. >> Regulated and controlled? Half the convenience stores in Houston are run by Pakistanis and they'll sell anything in the store to anyone who can push dollar bills across the counter. If the store won't sell beer to kids, there's usually a Mexican guy standing around who'll go in and buy it for them. Pot wouldn't be any different. This is surely true in many places but it will still be a huge improvement over the current situation, which puts a pot smoker in touch with everything from pot to crack to Oxycontin. The fundamental point that is so misunderstood by almost everyone is that drug abuse should NOT be a criminal justice matter. It is, de facto, a health care issue and should be treated as such. However, the criminal justice system is so deeply rooted in so-called drug crimes that many (not all) law enforcement and justice system personnel can't see it rationally. It is one of the most corrupt government programs in existence. It should be a clue when one of the biggest lobbies for stiffer drug penalties in California was the penal workers union. The money seized from drug criminals is unaccounted for and creates a slush fund for local law enforcement to buy everything from surplus tanks to grenade launchers with. It is so bad that people have been KILLED because of squabbles over who is going to get the money from the drug bust. It is pathetic. >> I've seen Portugal mentioned as an example before. It sounds like there's still a drug war there, albeit one with different tactics: There is not any debate over whether they are better off now versus before. Here is what is important: "Since decriminalization, lifetime prevalence rates (which measure how many people have consumed a particular drug or drugs over the course of their lifetime) in Portugal have decreased for various age groups. For students in the 7th-9th grades (13-15 years old), the rate decreased from 14.1% in 2001 to 10.6% in 2006. For those in the 10th-12th grades (16-18 years old), the lifetime prevalence rate, which increased from 14.1% in 1995 to 27.6% in 2001, the year of decriminalization, has decreased subsequent to decriminalization to 21.6% in 2006." cato.org It is worth reading.

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