Time to rethink the failed war on drugs
By Sal Rodriguez at OC Register
... "All of this speaks to the ineffectiveness of our current approach to drugs. We’ve had 45 years to see how imprisonment, treatment with the threat of imprisonment and a litany of local, state, federal and international drug agencies and task forces work. They don’t."
"We would probably be better off dissolving the DEA and reallocating its multibillion-dollar budget to harm reduction and treatment. Decriminalizing personal possession and use of drugs should also be considered, as criminalizing drug users and addicts alike has failed to encourage treatment and better choices."
"If we want to curtail the problems associated with the use of heroin, we should probably look more to the use of things like syringe exchange programs, supervised injection facilities and heroin-assisted treatment."
"We might want to take a step back from prosecuting doctors or having government bureaucrats tell them how to do their jobs. We also should do a better job of educating the public about the actual dangers of drugs, which are real, but often misrepresented."
"We don’t need another war on drugs, we just need smarter approaches."
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