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Legalization: Panacea or Pandora's Box? |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / POINT-COUNTERPOINT--SHOULD ILLICIT DRUGS BE LEGALIZED? |
| Author: The National Center on Addition and Substance at Columbia University |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2006 |
| Size: 15,359 Words, 100,321 Characters |
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I. Introduction
Legalization of drugs has recently received some attention as a policy option for the United States. Proponents of such a radical change in policy argue that the "war on drugs" has been lost; drug prohibition, as opposed to illegal drugs themselves, spawns increasing violence and crime; drugs are available to anyone who wants them, even under present restrictions; drug abuse and addiction would not increase after legalization; individuals have a right to use whatever drugs they wish; and foreign experiments with legalization work and should be adopted in the United Slates. In this, its first White Paper, the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA) examines these propositions; recent trends in drug use; the probable consequences of leg...
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...Assessment (CALDATA) (August 1994).
179. C. Peter Rydell and Susan Everingham, Controlling Cocaine: Supply vs. Demand Programs (Santa Monica: Rand, 1994).
180. Wisotsky, in Evans and Berent, eds., p. 206.
181. For a similar statement see Swedish National Institute of Public Health (1993).
Copyright © 1995 The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University
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