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To fight drugs, U.S. must cut demand

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"The Office of National Drug Control Policy, under which Plan Colombia and other drug control programs operate, spends 65 percent of its $12 billion annual budget on supply-side efforts and only 35 percent on the demand side. In 1971, when the Nixon administration initiated the war against drugs, the pragmatic goal was to have the exact opposite: two-thirds of funding for treatment and prevention and one-third for law enforcement, crop reduction and drug interdiction." To fight drugs, U.S. must cut demand By Duncan Smith-Rohrberg Maru 11/28/2008 A recent report by the Government Accountability Office, commissioned by Sen. Joe Biden, has come to an unsurprising conclusion: After more than $6 billion spent, the controversial drug control operation known as Plan Colombia has failed by large margins to meet its targets...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 28, 2008 (boomark / email).