Think Again: Drugs [Part 5c: Legalization - article end]


	Think Again: Drugs [Part 5c: Legalization - article end]

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10-18-2007 1:13 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/900f82e0-bf59-476c-abd7-7c2fc9bd9f0a/E1EACEBE-D37B-4B4C-937B-119DAA835A3D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3932&page=6" href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3932&page=6" style="font-size: 11px;">www.foreignpolicy.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3932&page=6">Legalization Will Never Happen</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3932&page=6"><DIV class="body"><P>The global war on drugs persists in part because so many people fail
to distinguish between the harms of drug abuse and the harms of
prohibition. Legalization forces that distinction to the forefront. The
opium problem in Afghanistan is primarily a prohibition problem, not a
drug problem. The same is true of the narcoviolence and corruption that
has afflicted Latin America and the Caribbean for almost three
decades—and that now threatens Africa. Governments can arrest and kill
drug lord after drug lord, but the ultimate solution is a structural
one, not a prosecutorial one. Few people doubt any longer that the war
on drugs is lost, but courage and vision are needed to transcend the
ignorance, fear, and vested interests that sustain it.</P></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E1EACEBE-D37B-4B4C-937B-119DAA835A3D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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