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-Federal drug war is a failure
-it does not reduce drug us but it creates criminal and social problems which is worse than the drug itself (problems like gang violence, foreign military intervention, overcrowded prisons, threats to civil liberties, and waste money & law enforcement resources |
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-believes changing policies could eliminate half of these problems
-states that freedom = allowing to make decisions for your own body
-1980s Reagan administration "war on drugs" official |
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-since that declaration^ every poverty, crime, destruction of families, and etc was linked to illicit drug use.
-believes that the biggest problem was criminal violence stemming from the artificial profit created by drug prohibition itself. |
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-voted against funding the war on drugs
-President Reagan identified the failure of 1960s Great society programs and said that the government was the problem not the solution |
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-Reagan conservatives argue that individual initiative and personal responsibility rather than a government check were the keys to a better life
-yet the war on drugs turned the idea of this upside down to the blame for personal moral failures on drugs rather than the individuals abusing them |
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| Libertarian believed-people should be left alone by the state unless they use force or fraud against another. Harm to oneself, however defined is not a legitimate justification for the state to intervene. |
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| Conservatives were not so for it but had come out in favor at least some degree of drug decriminalization |
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When Ron paul spoke his mind on this case when running he was framed as the one who wants to legalize drugs
but the people knew his background. |
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| He says he is not FOR legalizing drugs but he is against federal drug laws, including theoretical law legalizing drugs nationwide. |
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He mentioned the 9th and 10th Amendments, all powers not expressly given to congress are reserved to the states.
means the regulation of drugs are virtually all criminal and regulatory matters which is up to the individual states. State legislatures do better job than congress when determining local standards for dealing with drugs |
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^ and that is called freedom.
-says police, federal agents, prosecutors, drug counselors and etc have a job because drugs are illegal. alot of people would be unemployed if nations drug problems disappeared tomorrow. |
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| -says the job is to insure americans that ending the drug war will clean up the streets and the prohibition does nothing to reduce it and its demand for drugs |
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| says Drug wars produces black markets that impose huge economic and social costs on all of us |
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| says it destroys lives of countless nonviolent offenders which could be our family member, friend..etc |
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-involved himself in dicussions of national policies that impacted the quality of life in the city
-he said we should consider the issues of decriminalizing of drugs looking at the problems we has with alcohol prohibition |
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-tried to frame him for wanting to legalize drugs...looked bad as a major
-talked about the ways he opened up the conversations, by relating them to their personal lives like their kids
-people just seeing the crime rates go down while incarceration was going up |
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| Because the crime rates were going down it was hard to get people to think of other ways of dealing with the war on drugs |
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| -Human Rights Watch said 5 times more white drug users than blk, blk men are admitted to state prison on drug charges at a rate that is 13.4 times greater than that of white men |
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says the drug problem is actually 3 interrelated problems
1) addiction
2) crime
3) AIDs
((2 of them heath issues and one criminal related)) so it should be a PUBLIC HEALTH WAR NOT A CRIMINAL JUSTICE WAR |
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| talked about the Harrison Act of 1914 and how it was not suppose 2 be prohibition. IT was not Volsead Act but later supreme court changed it to a Volstead Act-type prohibition law. it was to be a regulatory matter and put this problem in the hands of health professionals. it allowed the docs to make a decision if they needed a drug or not..((which are NOW illegal)) the harrison act on it face would have permitted but now became more and more prohibition and policies became harsher. |
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| talked about baltimore in 1987 when crack was coming. HVI/AIDS was going around because of the needles..he wanted to have a sterile syringe exchange program |
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The way they got into it is by saying "university or hospital wanted to study the situation"
3 times until he got approval for permission
Hopkins did the study-40% reduce AIDs
so there experience had a goooddd impact |
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| congressman told him treatment didnt work and then KURT used examples of cig smokers. |
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--says we should eliminate mandatory minimum sentence
because than prison would be loading up and besides it does they not consistent with our values. |
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| ^ says then there will be an opportunity for young people to not have to lie and say they have committed a crime. |
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-says we must eliminate racial profiling
-must impose alternatives for incarceration for nonviolent offenders
theres war because the drug dealers are having war over district, over profit, territory
we must have a common ground |
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| 60mins tv show-willy jones, the guy who they took the money the 9000 at the airport because they thought it was drug money and he couldnt get his money back unless he proved it was not for drugs. |
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Another incident Bill Munnerlyn and Albright Wright 2.7 million and they thought it was drug money
-Talked about Mexican Government how they take money |
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| -almost every town of substance in the USA as well as most federal agencies has its own SWAT team. even the FDA has used exactly this approach in raiding doctors' offices for alleged vitamin violations. |
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-Says drug problem is a creation of the government
-the war on drugs will necessarily fail, if only because the more successful it is at interdicting the supply the higher it will drive drug prices creating larger profits. higher profits will be a greater inducement for new individuals and organizations to get into business |
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| the war on drugs is the major reason the US has the highest percentage of its residents incarcerated of any country on earth |
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| high drug prices on the street not only encourages supply but force the typical user into crime to get his hands on enough money to support his habits, a significant form of COLLATERAL DAMAGE |
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talked about the alcohol prohibition
talks about individual right to dispose of his own life and property as he pleases, as long as he does not violate others |
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| Talks about Liberals and Libertarian views on legalization |
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Libertarian perspective on drug legalization is that individuals not governments should decide who consumes drug
-libertarian accept that some drug use seems irrational and self destructive but they believe prohibition creates far more harm than does drug use itself (so dont reduce the drug..not gonna help) |
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| Liberals do not generally trust individuals to make reasonable choices about drug use and they think government should adopt policies that attempt to discourage drug use. but liberals legalizers do not like using police power to achieve this goal especially when that power is directed at drug users as opposed to drug sellers want other options not prohibition but are willing to consider prohibition but they find prohibition excessive |
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Liberals and libertarians both agree that prohibition has many undesired consequences
-black markets, -punishing nonviolent offenders, -increasings of overdose, -increase property crimes that results from elevated drug prices, and the violences from the black market dealers by dealing with fights and guns rather than lawyers. |
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Libertarians favor outright legalization
Liberals prefer decriminalization |
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-Legalization for libertarians means the production, distribution, sale and possession of drugs are all legal, the law treats drugs like any other commodity
- Decriminalization preferred by Liberals means the possession of drugs is not subject to criminal sanctions, but penalties against production, distribution, and sale remain in place. drugs are not legal commodities. |
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| Liberals and Libertarians both agree that the arrest and prosecution of drug users is ill-advised |
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Liberals hostile toward drug sellers than toward drug users.
-liberals agree individuals are free, they have the right to take the drugs but not to sale them. that harms others. |
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| Libertarians say decriminalization dos little to reduce. decriminalization maintains the illegal status of production, distribution, and sale of drugs. s the industry still operates underground |
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| ^^to this argument Liberals say that other countries in Europe have decriminalized drugs by minimizing the harms from drugs and drug prohibition , theydid not make it legal. |
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| Libertarians want to legalize it but they agree that decriminalization is preferable to current practice, but they still see it as less desirable |
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Liberals and Libertarians are if they should legalize all drugs or just mary j.
Libertarians say all drugs. Liberals say just Mary j because mary j is far less dangerous than the other ones, and they are not convinced that individuals make reasonable decisions on their own |
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| Liberals and Libertarians agree that mary j is far less addictive than cocaine, but libertarians say addiction is not a problem per se. people are responsible for their own actions |
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| Liberal wants treatment problems, libertarians it is a separate issue, libertarians say government can scale back interdiction without increasing treatment budgets, libertarians doubt that expenditure for drug abuses treatment is a good use of government funds--they say it is voluntary decision because they are responsible for their own life. say the person should pay for their treatment |
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| Libertarians say treatment is expensive and there is little evidence that subsidized treatment produces long term reductions in drug use. |
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| Liberal support for governemnt funded drug abuse treatment partly reflects the view that drug use should be reduced although by means other than police power. it also reflects the view that drug addiction is a treatable disease that is not controllable by individuals |
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| Liberals say the drugs should b subject to substantially more regulation and taxation than applies to most other commodities SO ALL FOR HEAVY TAXING |
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| Libertarian say no, it will drive them to drug markets underground and generates the same negatives as prohibition |
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Liberals want age restrictions similar to those currently in effect for alcohol and tobacco would apply to legalized drug
Libertarians suspect that age restrictions do more harm than good. they say age restriction is a big improvement over total prohibition, but they would not object strongly to mild age restrictions for the purchase of drugs, they would first choose no age restrictions whatsoever. |
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| Libertarians would impose few if any restrictions on advertising of legalized drugs. they say advertising would be good for the producers to sale their products but libertarians choose to AVOID advertising restrictions as well |
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| Liberals fear advertising would persuade many persons to consume drugs. therefore ban most or all advertising of legalized drugs |
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About the needle exchange programs
Liberals say they are all for it
Libertarians do not think this is an appropriate function of government. They say the drug users should accept the risk of consequences that comes along with using drugs |
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| Legalization would produce substantial declines in drug prices and no doubt users would want to inject |
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liberals believe drug testing is an inappropriate invasion of privacy conducted by untrustworthy firms who hound their employees in the pursuit of profits
Libertarians believe private employers have the right to use drug testing if they wish. some employers might adopt testing because they believe drug use reduces productivity, so basically the employers get to make the call |
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