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very long tradition to the contrary, clinical experience and statistical studies clearly prove
that psychosis is not one of ‘the pains of addiction.’ Organic deterioration is regularly
produced by alcohol in sufficient amount but is unknown with opiates, and the functional
psychoses which are occasionally encountered after withdrawal are clearly coincidental,
being manifestations of a latent demonstrable pre-existing conditions.’” (Edward M. Brecher
med flere, The Consumers Union Report — Licit and Illicit Drugs, kapittel 4)
183 Walter Wink Getting Off Drugs: The Legalization Option
184 Peter Reuter & Robert MacCoun, Drug War Heresies; Learning from Other Vices, Times,
and Places (Cambridge University Press 2005) s 167.
185 Legen Andrew Weil, sier dette om alkohol i boken sin: “There is no question that alcohol
is the most toxic of all the drugs discussed in this book. Yet our own society has made
alcohol its social drug of choice.” Andrew Weil & Winifred Rosen, From Chocolate to
Morphine; Everything You Need to Know About Mind-Altering Drugs (Houghton Mifflin
2004), s 78.
186 Mer om den manglende fornuften bak skillet:
I denne høringskommiteen i det britiske underhuset innrømmer professor Sir Michael
Rawlins, formannen i ACMD, implisitt at skillet mellom de legale og illegale stoffene er
irrasjonelt og at kriminaliseringen heller ikke er hensiktsmessig:
”Chairman: Bearing in mind that alcohol probably kills directly or indirectly about
32,000 people a year, tobacco 130,000 people a year, and those deaths are far in excess of
all the deaths caused by the use of all illicit drugs, why is your committee not enabled to look
at tobacco and alcohol as well as all the other substances?
Professor Sir Michael Rawlins: I think the idea that we would control tobacco and
alcohol in the form of the Misuse of Drugs Act (which would thereby render them illegal in
terms of possession or supply) [is useless]. [T]he Americans tried this [during] Prohibition
days in the 1930s, and it was a disaster and just encouraged crime, and quite clearly it is not
a practicable proposition.
Chairman: But, Professor Rawlins, that is exactly what has happened in terms of the
drugs classification system. It is exactly what happened with the prohibition of alcohol in the
States.
Professor Sir Michael Rawlins: I would not disagree with that. I think it is important
that the Council does not exclude alcohol and nicotine entirely. One of the very important
things the Council does — and it is nothing to do with classification — is it has a Prevention
Working Group looking at prevention aspects of the misuse of drugs and its current
programme, which is looking at the pathways to misuse of drugs by children and
adolescents, is particularly also looking at nicotine and alcohol because we know that the
early use — and Professor Nutt may want to talk about this — of nicotine and alcohol is a
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