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Criminal
Defense
Lawyers
Demand
End
to
Drug
War
11/17/00
(courtesy NORML Foundation,
http://www.norml.org)
Washington, DC: The
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' (NACDL) board of directors
unanimously approved a resolution on November 4th calling for the end of
the war on drugs.
In its resolution, NACDL,
the nation's largest specialty bar association representing the interests
of criminal defense lawyers, stated that drug use should be considered
a health problem, and that the government should "repeal all laws criminalizing
the possession, use and delivery of controlled substances." The resolution
also calls for a regulated and taxable system for selling controlled substances
with a portion of the revenues going towards drug treatment clinics, drug
education and research.
"As a nation, we've stood
by and watched this 'war on drugs' lock up a whole generation of young
African-Americans," said Fred Leatherman, the NACDL board member who drafted
the resolution. "All the evidence says it's a sham and a failure.
And everybody else who makes money from it thinks we should escalate the
war. We do not agree."
"Both of our presidential
candidates committed 'youthful indiscretions' in their day," said NACDL
president Edward Mallet. "Would they, or we, be better off if they
had been sent to prison like so many blacks and Latinos are these days?"
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Issue #160, 11/17/00
Interview: Federal Judge Denounces Drug War | New Jersey: Racial Profiling Documents to Be Released | Catholic Bishops Call for Broad Criminal Justice Reforms | Southern Legislators to Look at Asset Forfeiture Reform | Britain: Labour on Drugs, Wobbly and Confused | Sweden: Small Cracks Emerge in Drug War Consensus in Europe's Bastion of Reaction | Newsbrief: California Governor Finally Appoints Drug Czar in Wake of Proposition 36 | Needle Exchange and AIDS: Health Emergency 2001 Report, Infectious Disease Society Endorsement, Global Epidemic | Criminal Defense Lawyers Demand End to Drug War | The Reformer's Calendar | Editorial: A Message to the President-Elect
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