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"America Should Decriminalize Drugs"

By Douglas A. Berman

According to this piece at The Daily Beast, the title of this post is "what César Gaviria, the former president of Colombia, tells the Daily Beast in an exclusive interview following Obama's visit to Latin America."  Here is more from the piece: [E]nforcements efforts are important, but when it comes to diluting the demand for drugs, the U.S. is missing the point, says the former President of Colombia, César Gaviria, in an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast.  A central player in the 1990s drug wars, Gaviria was the leader of a country that supplied the bulk of the planet?s cocaine.  Now, he believes the best way to break the world?s thirst for drugs is to decriminalize them ? not just the ?soft? ones, but all of them.... Gaviria has lived the drug war first-hand, and says fighting it was ?a very frustrating experience...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 20, 2009 (boomark / email).