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The
Debate:
Reformers
and
a
Prohibitionist
Respond
to
Favorable
Wall
Street
Journal
Editorial
3/10/06
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/426/wsjletters.shtml
Two weeks ago, DRCNet reported
that Wall Street Journal deputy editor for international affairs George
Melloan had penned a
strong critique of the drug war that likened it to the nation's failed
attempt at prohibiting alcohol last century.
The column's appearance in
the once staidly prohibitionist WSJ editorial page created a stir among
the ranks of reformers, and some of them took out their pens or e-mail
writers to write in. Congrats for their published letters to reformers
David Padden, founder and chairman emeritus of the libertarian Heartland
Institute; Law Enforcement Against Prohibition's Jack Cole; and Howard
Wooldridge, also of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.
The booby prize goes to former
Office of National Drug Control Policy spokesman Bob Weiner, who was published
advocating the prohibitionist viewpoint. [Ed: Weiner once hung
up on me -- all I wanted him to do was answer my question! - DB]
Follow the links to read
the letters from Padden,
Weiner,
Wooldridge
and Cole
online.
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Issue #426
-- 3/10/06
Feature:
Five
Years
On,
California's
Proposition
36
Claims
Success,
But
Faces
New
Struggles
|
Feature:
Pilot
Methadone
Maintenance
Program
for
Jail
Inmates
Off
to
Good
Start,
New
Mexico
Officials
Say
|
Web
Site:
A
Friendly
Reminder
About
the
Drug
War
Chronicle
Archives
Page
--
New
Marijuana-Only
Archives
Now
Available
Too
|
Law
Enforcement:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
|
Methamphetamine:
Federal
Bill
Passes
as
Part
of
USA
Patriot
Act
|
Methamphetamine:
SAMHSA
Release
Misleads
on
Treatment
Numbers,
Press
Bites
|
Medical
Marijuana:
Steve
Kubby
Freed
From
Jail
--
Lost
25
Pounds
in
Six
Weeks
|
Canada:
Another
Week,
Another
Attack
on
the
Cannabis
Industry
|
Europe:
Edinburgh
"Drug
Czar"
Says
Time
to
Consider
Prescribing
Heroin
|
Africa:
Morocco's
Campaign
Against
Hashish
Growing
Has
Peasants
Grumbling,
Protesting
|
Southwest
Asia:
Afghan
Opium
Crop
to
Expand
This
Year,
UN
Says
|
The
Debate:
Reformers
and
a
Prohibitionist
Respond
to
Favorable
Wall
Street
Journal
Editorial
|
Media
Scan:
Reformers
and
UN
Drug
Chief
Debate
on
the
BBC
This
Weekend
|
Weekly:
This
Week
in
History
|
Job
Opening:
Communications
Assistant,
Drug
Policy
Alliance,
New
York
|
Weekly:
The
Reformer's
Calendar
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