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Link
of
the
Week:
Expose
of
some
of
CASA's
thinness
10/11/97
One of the key points in the prohibition debate is that prohibition
creates a black market in which disagreements are settled by violence rather
than rule of law, and motivates economic crimes by addicts, which sometimes
involve violence, by driving up the price of drugs to extraordinary levels.
The afore-mentioned CASA White Paper acknowledges these effects, but claims
that most drug- related violence is pharmacological, that is, due to the
effects of drugs on their users.
But CASA distorted the findings of the one study they quoted to this
effect, and ignored other, more recent, more relevant studies that contradicted
their rhetorical point. An analysis by Dave Fratello in the Winter '96
issue of the Drug Policy Letter details an abuse of statistics by CASA
so extraordinary that persons concerned about higher education ought to
be scandalized by CASA's affiliation with Columbia University. Our link
of the week is "Casa's House of Cards", on the Drug Policy Foundation's
web site at http://www.dpf.org/dpletter/28/html/casas.html.
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Issue #15, 10/11/97
Media Alert: CNN covering Vancouver's Marc Emery Tomorrow (Sunday night) | First Federally Sponsored Med Mj Research Research Approved | Clinton AIDS Advisors Consider Resignation in Protest of Federal Ban on Needle Exchange Funding | Interview with Alexander Robinson | FBI Report Shows a Record Year for Marijuana Busts | American Medical Association Calls for More Rational Drug Policies | Canadian Ambassador to Mexico Steps Down | Hung Jury for Hawaiian Activist Charged with Buying Legal Hempseed | BC Canada's Attorney General Calls for an Examination of Decriminalization | Aussies Spending $7 Billion Per Year on Illegal Drugs: Report notes failure of Prohibition | 1997 Miss America Calls for Needle Exchange | Quote of the Week: Prominent drug policy researcher calls CASA's work thin | Link of the Week: Expose of some of CASA's thinness | Editorial: The voices of reform are growing louder... whether or not the Drug Warriors want to hear them
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