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Ved å forby alkohol økte man, med andre ord, lovløsheten i samfunnet
eksponensielt. Akkurat som vi har gjort med narkotikaforbudet i dag. Dommer James Gray
sier det slik: ”*F+ederal funding for law enforcment efforts was increased from $2.2 million in
1929 to $12 million in 1929, and the federal prison population increased between 1920 and
1932 from 3000 to 12 000 with two-thirds of inmates incarcerated for alcohol and other
drug offenses. Interestingly enough, the federal murder rate, which had been rising steadily
throughout Alcohol Prohibition. Decreased for eleven consecutive years after its repeal.”
James P Gray, Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed And What We Can Do About It; A Judical
Indictment of the War on Drugs, (Temple University Press 2001) s 23.
Sammenligner man derfor gevinsten den noe reduserte brukerprosenten hadde i
forhold til de uheldige effektene forbudet førte med seg var det, som Miron også
konkluderer, klart at alkoholforbudet i det store og hele var et mislykket prosjekt. Det var da
også derfor man gikk vekk fra tanken i 1933.
For Norges del var vårt forsøk på å forby alkohol like mislykket. Waal og Middelthon
forteller:
”I Norge hadde vi alkoholforbud under og etter 1. Verdenskrig. Det ble avskaffet i 1927 fordi
at de tilsiktede effektene ikke sto i forhold til kontrollskadene.” (Waal & Middelthon,
Narkotikaforebygging mot år 2000, s 133).
182 Skadebildet forbundet med heroin:
“The chronic, long-term effects of heroin and cocaine are not as severe as those of alcohol
and tobacco. There is thus general agreement throughout the medical and psychiatric
literature that the overall effects of opium, morphine and heroin on the addict's mind and
body under conditions of low price and ready availability are on the whole amazingly bland.”
(James Ostrowski Thinking about Drug Legalization Policy analysis nr 121 Cato institute
funnet på http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=981.)
“*I+n 1956, Dr. George H. Stevenson and his British Columbia associates gave complete
neurological and psychiatric examinations to imprisoned addicts, and questioned them and
their relatives in an attempt to find mental deterioration. They reported: ‘As to possible
damage to the brain, the result of lengthy use of heroin, we can only say that neurologic and
psychiatric examinations have not revealed evidence of brain damage.... This is in marked
contrast to the prolonged and heavy use of alcohol, which in combination with other factors
can cause pathologic changes in brains, and reflects such damage in intellectual and
emotional deterioration, as well as convulsions, neuritis, and even psychosis.’” (Edward M.
Brecher med flere, The Consumers Union Report — Licit and Illicit Drugs, kapittel 4)
“In 1963, Deputy Commissioner Henry Brill of the New York State Department of Mental
Hygiene, chairman of the American Medical Association’s narcotics committee, after a
survey of 35,000 mental hospital patients, summarized the data in these terms: ‘In spite of a
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