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This
Week
in
History
7/2/04
July 4, 2001: Britain's
former ambassador to Keith Morris, comes out for legalization in The Guardian.
Morris writes:
It must be time
to start discussing how drugs could be controlled more effectively within
a legal framework. Decriminalization, which is often mentioned, would
be an unsatisfactory halfway house, because it would leave the trade in
criminal hands, giving no help at all to the producer countries, and would
not guarantee consumers a safe product or free them from the pressure of
pushers. It has been difficult for me to advocate legalization because
it means saying to those with whom I worked, and to the relatives of those
who died, that this was an unnecessary war. But the imperative must
be to try to stop the damage. Drug prohibition does not work.
July 1996: National Review
publishes a selection from the 400 letters to the editor they received
following their February 1996 cover and set of essays calling for drug
legalization:
http://www.druglibrary.org/think/~jnr/nr0796.htm
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Issue #344, 7/2/04
Editorial: Under Its Own Weight |
Supreme Court Ruling Portends Massive Changes in Federal Sentencing -- Thousands Could Benefit from Reduced Sentences, Early Releases on Appeal |
Federal Judge Declares Sentencing Guidelines Unconstitutional |
Supreme Court to Hear Federal Government Appeal in California Medical Marijuana Case |
International Anti-Drugs Day Marked by Executions in China, "Revolutionary Justice" in India, Silly Stuff Elsewhere |
DRCNet Book Review: "Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000" by Martin Torgoff (Simon & Schuster, 2004, 474 Pages, Notes/Bibliography/Index, $27.95) |
Newsbrief: Bill Introduced in Congress Would Mandate Ten Years to Life for Some Marijuana Sales |
Newsbrief: New Jersey Needle Exchange Battle Continues |
Newsbrief: Iran Wants to Ban Water Pipes |
Newsbrief: European Drug Agency Punctures "Not Your Father's Marijuana" Myth |
Newsbrief: North Carolina Supreme Court Settles Dispute, Declares Cocaine Possession Is a Felony |
Media Scan: Ethan Nadelmann in National Review |
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