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The Case for Drug Legalization |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--IS IT A WAR ON DRUGS? |
| Author: Gary E. Johnson |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2000 |
| Size: 1,618 Words, 9,267 Characters |
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I am a "cost-benefit" analysis person. What's the cost and what's the benefit? A couple of things scream out as failing cost-benefit criteria. One is education. The other is the war on drugs. We are presently spending $50 billion a year to combat drugs. I'm talking about police, courts, and jails. For the amount of money that we're putting into it, I want to suggest, the war on drugs is an absolute failure. My "outrageous" hypothesis is that under a legalized scenario, we could actually hold drug use level or see it decline.
Sometimes people say to me, "Governor, I am absolutely opposed to your stand on drugs." I respond by asking them, "You're for drugs, you want to see kids use drugs?" Let me make something clear. I'm not pro-drug. I'm against drugs. Don't do drugs. Drugs are a real h...
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... it's been said before, is that the war on drugs is thousands of miles long, but it's only about a quarter-inch deep. I'm trying to communicate what I believe in this issue. Drugs are bad, but we need to stop arresting and locking up the entire country.
FOOTNOTE: This article is excerpted from a speech given at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. by Governor Johnson on October 5, 1999.
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