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policy manipulation, and the selective release of information and misinformation to other
interest groups and the media.
These strategies are followed because bureaus must compete with one another for
the support and attention of sponsors (and individual bureaucrats must compete with other
bureaucrats for benefits within a bureau) and because the control of resources is necessary
before most of the subjective goals of bureaucrats can be achieved. Breton and Wintrobe
emphasized that bureaucratic release of both true and false information, or ‘selective
distortion,’ can play significant roles in bureaucratic policy advocacy.
This has clearly been the case in the evolution of drug policy. For example, the
bureaucratic campaigns leading up to the 1937 marijuana legislation ‘included remarkable
distortions of the evidence of harm caused by marijuana, ignoring the findings of empirical
inquiries.’ The ‘reefer madness’ scare traces to the misinformation propagated by the
Bureau of Narcotics. Marijuana was alleged to cause insanity, to incite rape, and to cause
users to develop delirious rages, making them irresponsible and prone to commit violent
crimes. Factual distortions did not stop there, however. For instance, the bill was
represented as one that was largely symbolic in that it would require no additional
enforcement expenditures. The evolution of drug policy since the initial legislation has also
been, at least in part, shaped by bureaucratic competition, both between law enforcement
and drug treatment bureaucrats over ‘ownership of the problem’ — that is, over shares of
federal, state, and local budgets — and between law enforcement bureaucracies
themselves.” (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 dette, se James Ostrowski, Thinking about Drug Legalization, Policy
analysis nr 121. Cato institute.
The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge: An Inquiry into the Legal History of
American Marihuana Prohibition by Professors Richard J. Bonnie & Charles H. Whitebread, II,
Virginia Law Review, Volume 56, October 1970 Number 6.
Robinson & Scherlen, Lies, Damn Lies, and Drug War Statistics (SUNY 2007), s 11-13.
294 Edward M. Brecher med flere, The Consumers Union Report - Licit and Illicit Drugs,
kapittel 56
295 Jack Herer, the Emperor Wears No Clothes (AH HA Publishing 1998), s 195.
296 Ibid s 187
297 Whitebread sa dette under en tale til The California Judge Assossiation. Sitatet er
funnet I Erik Brorson, Hovedfagsoppgave, kapittel 5.2.5: Alt du får vite om narkotika er
bare bøff, (lastet ned fra narkoman.net)
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