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Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky är professor i lingvistik och är en känd samhällsdebattör i USA. Han har i flera
decennier kritiserat kriget mot droger.
“
...the United Nations tries to monitor the international drug trade, and their estimates
are on the order of $400 to $500 billion -- half a trillion dollars a year -- in trade
alone, which makes it higher than oil, something like 10 percent of the world trade.
Where this money comes and goes to is mostly unknown, but general estimates are
that maybe 60 percent of it passes through US banks. After that, a lot goes to offshore
tax havens. It's so obscure that nobody monitors it, and nobody wants to. But the
Commerce Department every year publishes figures on foreign direct investment --
where US investment is going -- and through the '90s the big excitement has been the
"new emerging markets" like Latin America. And it turns out that a quarter of US
foreign direct investment is going to Bermuda, another 15 percent to the Bahamas
and the Cayman Islands, another 10 percent to Panama, and so on. Now, they're not
building steel factories. The most benign interpretation is that it's just tax havens.
And the less benign interpretation is that it's one way of passing illegal money into
places where it will not be monitored. We really don't know, because it is not
investigated. This is not the task of the Justice Department, which is to go after a
black kid in the ghetto who has a joint in his pocket.
— Noam Chomsky, 1998 [12]
”
Noam Chomsky - On Social Cleansing, the 'war on drugs', Marijuana and prohibition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-JX0yXDlh8
Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman som fick Nobelpriset i ekonomi 1976 diskuterar förbudets nackdelar och drar
paralleller till USA:s förbud mot alkohol under 20-talet och dess konsekvenser:
Milton Friedman - Why Drugs Should Be Legalized:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLsCC0LZxkY
Mark Haden
Mark Haden är ingen stor auktoritet men har jobbat 25 år som drogutbildare/drogföreläsare i Kanada
och har gått från att vara förbudsförespråkare till att numera förespråka skademinimering och
dekriminalisering. Se fler intressanta videoklipp på YouTube eller besök hans hemsida för mer
information.
“
We
have overemphasized the harms of drugs, we have neglected to mention the
benefits of certain drugs and we have omitted mentioning the harms that drug
prohibition causes...
— Mark Haden [13] ”
Mark Haden: A drug educator's apology:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWxyWEcSiJg
A Public Health Approach to Illegal Drugs or How to end the drug war:
http://vimeo.com/54994899#at=0
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