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"Why it?s time to end the war on drugs"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this commentary by Matthew Engel from the Financial Times.  Here is a snippet: For decades many academics and professionals have regarded the current blanket prohibition on recreational drugs (though not alcohol or tobacco) as absurd, counter-productive and destructive. But there has never been any political imperative for change, and a thousand reasons to do nothing. But 2009 has seen a change: among the academics and professionals who study this issue, from Carlisle Racecourse to the think-tanks of ­Washington, there is growing sense that reform is possible and increasingly urgent.  The argument is not that drug use is A Good Thing.  It is that the collateral damage caused by the so-called war on drugs has now reached catastrophic proportions...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 31, 2009 (boomark / email).