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News (Media Awareness Project) - CN AB: PUB LTE: The War On Drugs Has Failed - 7 of 7
Title:CN AB: PUB LTE: The War On Drugs Has Failed - 7 of 7
Published On:1999-11-02
Source:Calgary Herald (CN AB)
Fetched On:2008-09-05 16:35:12
THE WAR ON DRUGS HAS FAILED

The reality of the `mind-altering' editorial is different with y'all up
there than with us down here. Down here, the notion of stopping drug use
ends up with cities becoming combat zones with military-style policing.
Please, don't go there.

Prohibition is worse than a dead-end street. It creates a black market and
the thugs take over. Then the citizenry - hopefully adequately represented
by its local government - has to hire thugs to handle those thugs. Things
get nastier. It will escalate. And protection will cost more and more.

Allan Erickson
Eugene, Ore.
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