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Shultz
And
Friedman
Tell
California
Cops
"Drug
War
is
a
Dismal
Failure"
11/15/97
Former Reagan administration Secretary of State George Shultz and Nobel
Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman each reaffirmed, in passionate
terms, their views on the inescapable failure of America's "War on
Drugs" last week. The speeches, delivered to a gathering of California
law enforcement officials at the Hoover Institute, were part of a two-day
program designed to examine more pragmatic approaches to substance abuse.
Friedman listed the wide variety of ways that the drug war is immoral,
including massive increases in incarceration, the near-destruction of inner-city
neighborhoods and the extensive use of informants as some of the ills brought
upon by this failed policy. "We have done things in the name of prohibiting
drugs that we never would do for prohibiting robbery, for example,"
Friedman said.
Shultz noted "If you create a system where profits are immense,
you're going to set up an independent Industry," he said. "And
boy have we set up an industry... It's vast and it's ruthless."
The conference, which took place at Stanford's prestigious Hoover Institution,
was organized by Dr. Joseph McNamara, former chief of police in San Jose
and Kansas City. Information about the first such conference in 1995 and
its surprising results, as well as some of Dr. McNamara's speeches and
editorials, can be found online at http://www.drcnet.org/cops/cops.html
and http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/mcn/mcntoc.htm.
[Source: Oakland Tribune, 11/7, and private communications]
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Issue #19, 11/15/97
NJ Needle Exchange Continues Legal Battle: Medical Necessity Defense Rejected By Judge | Virginia Pushes Envelope on Pain Control: Medical Society Calls For Greater Acceptance Of Narcotics | Marihuana The Forbidden Medicine: Revised and Expanded Edition of the Landmark Book by Grinspoon and Bakalar | Media Alert: Magazine Does Hatchet Job on San Francisco's Reform-Minded District Attorney | Events: The Reformer's Calendar Updated -- Events Coming Right Up! | Junior High Student Suspended for Supplying Cough Drop | Drug Czar "Sends a Message" to the Pentagon Over Anti- Drug Budget: Military Reluctant To Expand Drug War Involvement | Shultz And Friedman Tell California Cops "Drug War is a Dismal Failure" | Undercover Federal Narc Shoots Teen Holding Candy Bar | Consumption of (Legal) Alcohol Plunges | 18 Students Share Needle in Science Class | 51% of Canadians Favor Decriminalization of Marijuana | Clinton Removes Syria, Lebanon from List of Problem Drug Trafficking Nations | Rheumatoid Arthritis Sufferer Gets 9-Month Suspended Sentence in England | Colorado Governor Calls for Sentencing Reform: Prefers Alternatives to Incarceration and Educational Spending | Editorial: Youth are Victims of Drug War
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