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147 James Ostrowski Thinking about Drug Legalization Policy analysis nr 121 Cato institute
funnet på http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=981.
148 Peter Moskos, Two Takes: Drugs Are Too Dangerous Not to Regulate—We Should Legalize
Them, 25. juli, 2008.
149 Rationalizing Drug Policy, Florida State University Law Review (2003), Vol. 30, s 679. Kan
lastes ned her: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=453661. For mer om
hvordan den politiske prosessen som edet frem til narkotikaforbudet er korrumpert, se
sluttnote nr.289
150 ONDCPs misvisende statistikker og konklusjoner
Det presenteres årlig en rekke rapporter som foregir å vise at narkotikapolitikken er både
vellykket og nødvendig, men slike rapporter er enten overlagt misvisende, eller de baserer
seg på konklusjoner som er et resultat av et underordnet perspektiv. Dette er alltid tilfellet
når forbudstilhengerne presenterer sine statistikker og konklusjoner. ONDCPs John Walters,
forsvarte for eksempel narkotikapolitikken slik, i en artikkel i Wall Street Journal den 5.
desember 2008: “Whatever challenges await him, President-elect Barack Obama will not
have to reinvent the wheel when it comes to keeping a lid on the use of illegal drugs. Our
policy has been a success — although that success is one of Washington’s best kept secrets.
Reported drug use among eighth, 10th and 12th graders has declined for six straight years.
Teen use of cocaine, marijuana and inhalants is down significantly, while consumption of
methamphetamine and hallucinogens like LSD and Ecstasy has all but collapsed.
The number of workplace tests that are positive for cocaine is down sharply, to the
lowest levels on record. Even the sudden spike of meth use — remember the headlines from
just a few years ago? — has yielded to a combination of state and federal regulations
controlling meth ingredients. And abroad, crackdowns in Colombia and Mexico have caused
the price of cocaine to roughly double in the past two years.” (John Walters, Our Drug Policy
Is a Success; Workplace tests for cocaine show the lowest use on record, Wall street journal s
nettutgave 5. desember 2008.)
Dette er hvordan forbudstilhengerne i årevis har presentert forbudspolitikken. Men bøker
som Lies, Damn Lies, And Drug War Statistics, viser hvordan Walters og ONDCP misbruker
tall og statistikker til inntekt for sin sak. I denne boken ser forfatterne nærmere på krigen
mot narkotika, og på ONCDPs rolle i den siden instansens opprettelse i 1988. Som
forfatterne sier: “We provide an empirical assessment of the nation’s drug war during a tenyear
period. This represents the first time that ONDCP goals have been systematically
evaluated over any period. We find that statistics readily available to ONCDP suggest that
illicit drug use was not down during this period, that the need for drug treatment was up,
that deaths attributable to illicit drugs and emergency room mentions of illicit drugs were
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