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| nationals does not favor drugs but they want to decrease sentences against anyone convicted of selling a drug to a minor.-agrees on the motion to legalize drugs & agree that the war on drug is failing |
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says drugs are addictive,
the war has failed
all for legalization |
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its not the use of illegal drugs that we complain about but about the abuse of drugs
says that 85million have atleast tried drugs before
under 1 million for regular cocaine users
5million regularly use mary j
70million once used, once tried of anything with mary j |
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says more people die from war on drugs than overdosing on drug, crime rates rise securally-serious crime is 480 per cent higher than in 1965
talked about people gettin robbed by addicts |
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| it transpire that treatment is 7x more cost-effective. by this meant that $1 spent on the treatment of an addict redueed the probability of continued addiction 7x more than $1 spent in incarceration |
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| he talks about the tobacco, how it dropped not because it became illegal after a while but because people started seeing the health issues, and stopped smoking on their own and he hopes for the same results for drugs. |
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says those who suffer from drug abuse have themselves to blame
says its crazy to live in a society who send people to jail for life because they grew, distributed, a dozen of mary j |
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agrees that people die in war on drugs than overdosing
says the problem is big
talked about 73000 blacks have drug related AIDS or have died from it among people who inject drugs lack are almost 5x as likely as white to be diagnosed with AIDs blacks risk of getting AIDS is 7x greater than the risk of dying from an overdose |
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| he talks about his needle exchange idea it was evaluated by JOhns Hopkins school of publie health and hygiene. the research showed it saved lives |
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| the needle exchange cost yearly 160,000 and the cost of taking care of ONE adult with AIDs is 102,000-120,000 |
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| needle exchange does not increase drug use, but instead save lives and even reduce crime |
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crack cocaine because the drug choice in the most inner cities
AIDs spread rapidly
Talked about Al capone-cpmpeting for turk, killing not just one another but innocent standbyers, witnesses, law enforcement officals |
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Truths about drugs and drug policies that americans know now
1) most people can use most drugs without doing much harm to themseleves or anyone else. for example talked abou 70million people having some past or present with mary j, and how they have not dealt with other drugs..the same with the use of cocaine or hallucinogens
now docs cant prescript to the really sick ones, even tho they not addicted they are just in the need 75 per cent americans say mary j should be used for medical purposes |
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| ^^ 2) drugs are here to stay. we will never have a drug free society. talked about how americans have used psychoactive substance whether it is caffeine, nicotine, or mary j |
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^^3)prohibition is no way to run a drug policy
we learned that from alcohol |
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^^4)choice in drug policies -zero tolerance choice and free market approach
-need to focus on reducing crime. and look at other countries such as netherlands, switzerland |
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| in holland addicts been increasing,but HVI is low, lower than USA, police dont waste resources on non-disruptive drug users, they rather focus on major deaalers or petty dealers who create public nuisances |
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| in Swiss they prescribt herion to addicts. the 2 yr plan was designed to determine whether they can reduce drug and prohibition related crime disease and death by making pharmaceutical herion legally available to addicts at regulated clinics. the result of the experiement have been sufficiently encouraging that it is being extended to over a dozen Swiss cities. |
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| Federal gov puts politics over science by ignoring the evidence of sterile syrings can reduce the spread of AIDS. Connecticut permitted needle sales in drugstores in 1992, and the policy resulted in a 40 per cent decrease in needle sharing among injecting drug users at no cost to taxpayers. |
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| methadone is more effective than any other treatmen in reducing herion-related crime, disease, and death. in australia and much of eruope addicts who want to reduce to quit their heroin use can obtain a prescription for methadone from a Gp and fill prescription at a local pharmacy |
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| said $500 worth of heroin or cocaine in a source country will bring in as much as $100,000 on the streets of an american city |
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| drug crooks align themseleves with their avowed enemies such as Drug Enforcement Administration |
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mentioned the harrison act again and how police are pushed into a war they cannot win.
80yrs of drug war propaganda has so influenced public opinion that most politicians believe they will lose their jobs if their opponents can claim they are soft on drugs and crime. |
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says mayor of nyc said he suported mathadone and various modalities of treatment and rehabilitation
-talked about the cost..how high it is...
-drug war is as lethal as it is corrupting.
-mentioned the 75 yr black guy who died of a heart attack -they mistakenly arrested him |
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estimated that as many as 10,000 additional homicides a yr are plausibly attributed to the drug war.
-the drug war has become a race war in which non white are arrested and imprisoned 4 to 5 times the rates white are, seen tho most drug crimes are committed by white. |
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| said the highschhool drop outs are not dropping out because they hooked on drugs..but because they are hooked on drug money. |
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-Talked about Al capone
-talked about how abuse of these drugs is a health problem not a criminal issue
-talked about the latest bill proposed a study of violence and crime encompassing drug policy but failed to fund it. |
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-said drug is a mass movement
-americas war on drugs dramatizes our unwavering devotion to the ideal of a drug free society |
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-USA self medication is evil
- to protect people from rejecting protection rom dangerous drugs the U.S criminalizes self medication without a prescription |
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| -agrees with william bennett- drugs use and drug controls are primarily moral issues, but...Szasz sees self medication as a basic human right & drug criminalization as sinful. and bennett sees it as wicked, and drug criminalization as virtuous. |
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| he really emphasizes the use of drugs in a medical way., and the patients wants, without fear of criminal penalites for overprescribing or civil penalties for malpractice or both |
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| people suffer from drug laws instead of drugs. |
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-agrees that the drug war is not working
- said we drug prohibition as we did other laws against vice, we didnt take it very seriously.
- we are near if not past that point with drug prohibition |
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-talked about bill clinton's drug czar
- drug comsumption is by itself responsible for turf wars
- he argues that drug war is responsible for atleast half of our serious crime
- annual dollar cost of americans crime at $674 billion. |
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| -talked about walking in central park is dangerous. and how americans sleep in their bathtub hoping it would be bullet proof |
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| says that the PROHIBITIONISTS say were it not for the drug war, we might be a nation of zombies. The DEA pulled the figure of 60million from the sky, thats how many cocaine users they say we would have if it werent for prohibition. |
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-State department says mexico does not have a serious drug problem
- Lee brown talked about alcohol how it after being legalized alcohol comsumption increased only about 25 per cent in the yrs following repeal.they say illegal drugs will double or triple following repeal preventing such increase only about 25 per cent |
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| he says he does not understand why conservates are concerned about individual drug use but not about the children with no father, and all the other issues americans have |
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