Roar Mikalsen - HUMAN RISING - radiofri..

på ingen måter kan forsvares ut fra de uttalte målene med narkotikaforbudet,
og som bare kan forklares ut fra den styrende klasses skjulte motivasjon for
forbudet.
Krigen mot narkotikas ubehjelpelighet
“It's not a stretch to conclude that our Draconian approach to drug use is the most
injurious domestic policy since slavery.”
Norm Stamper, politimann i 34 år. 135
Så hva har amerikanerne egentlig fått ut av politistaten sin? Har de hundrevis
av milliarder de har brukt på opprettelsen av den redusert problembildet
forbundet med de illegale stoffene? Har den lyktes i å redusere bruk,
tilgjengelighet, eller noe annet av viktighet?
Nei.
På ingen områder kan man si den eskalerende forbudslinjen har vært
godt for noe (mer om det) 136 . Politiorganisasjonen Law Enforcement Against
Prohibition (LEAP) og Criminal Justice Policy Foundation (CJPF) tar et oppgjør
med forbudslinjens troverdighet slik:
”After spending a trillion tax dollars and making 39 million arrests for nonviolent drug
offenses, drugs are now generally cheaper, more potent and easier for our children to
access than they were 40 years ago at the beginning of the ‘drug war’. Whenever we
attempt to confront our very real drug problems with the brute force of prohibition,
we make little progress. The few who have been helped are greatly exceeded by the
millions who have been hurt, all while precious resources and opportunities are
squandered in the process.
According to the federal government, in the decade preceding the start of the war,
4 million people in the United States above the age of 12 had used an illegal drug in
their lifetime (2 percent of the population). By 2007, the government revealed that
114 million people above the age of 12 had tried an illegal drug (46 percent of that
population), an increase of 2,850 percent. Drug use became a badge of rebellion,
although very widely worn. According to the World Health Organization, the United
States has the highest rates of marijuana and cocaine use in the world, despite our
having some of the harshest penalties. Drugs have become more concentrated and
potent, a natural result of the costs involved in avoiding law enforcement. The average
purity of cocaine at retail increased from 40 percent pure in 1981 to 70 percent pure in
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