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users although until quite recent times, there was virtually no illicit drug problem. Traditional
and ritual use of drugs was associated with very few problems.” (Australian Drug Law
Reform Foundation Drug Lore – The questioning of our current drug law, 1996 Kapittel 4, del
47)
Denne rapporten konkluderer med følgende: “The Inquiry reached the following conclusions
with respect to India:
1. Pressure by the United States on India in the 1970's lead to the adoption of prohibitionist
policies which have maximised the harm created by drug use in India. Prior to this India had
virtually no drug problem Many cannabis smokers have now begun to inject heroin.
2. India now has a sizeable problem with heroin injection.
3. Since prohibition, heroin has become much more readily available, even though the laws
are extremely punitive.
4. Huge amounts of heroin are shipped through India as corruption is endemic.
5. Fifty to seventy per cent of the injecting population in Manipur are HIV positive.”
(Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation Drug Lore – The questioning of our current drug
law, 1996 Kapittel 4, del 55.)
Jeg har også hørt flere heroinister si at de mest sannsynlig ikke ville begynt med opiater om
man skilte mellom svakere og sterkere stoffer slik man gjør i Nederland, og det er derfor mye
som tyder på at man, som Dr David Smith, i stedet kan si at: ”Det er ikke som regjeringen
forteller oss slik at bruk av cannabis fører til farligere stoffer; faktum er at mangel på
cannabis fører til farligere stoffer”. (Dan Baum, Smoke And Mirrors; the War on Drugs and
the Politics of Failure (Back Bay Books/Little Brown and Company) s 24.) Dette er en langt
mer oppegående tolkning av Gateway teorien. Og den stemmer langt bedre med de
observerte fakta, enn våre regjeringers tvangsmessige tolkning av den.
76 Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, 37 th Parliament, 1 st Session
(January 29, 2001 - September 16, 2002)
77 Dan Russell, Drug War; Covert Money, Power and Policy (Kalyx 2000), s 585-87
78 Patrick Matthews, Cannabis Culture (Bloomsbury Publishing 1999) s 67.
79 Doris Marie Provine, Unequal Under Law; Race in the War on Drugs (the University of
Chicago Press 2007), s 93.
80 Frem til 1977 var nemlig en stadig økende del av den voksne befolkningen for legalisering
av cannabis (28 prosent), men denne prosenten fortsatte å synke gjennom 1980-tallet.
Patrick Matthews, Cannabis Culture; A Journey Through Disputed Territory (Bloomsbury
Publishing 1999) s 187.
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