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| - Alexander Shulgin in: ''PiHKAL'', Introduction p.xvi, Transform Press, CA., 1991, ISBN 0-9630096-0-5 (en)
- Few things restrict people’s freedom as much as the consequences of violence, drugs and criminality in society. (en)
- I am completely convinced that there is a wealth of information built into us, with miles of intuitive knowledge tucked away in the genetic material of every one of our cells. Something akin to a library containing uncountable reference volumes, but without any obvious route of entry. And, without some means of access, there is no way to even begin to guess the extent and quality of what is there. The psychedelic drugs allow exploration of this interior world, and insights into its nature. (en)
- Notwithstanding the vast public resources expended on the enforcement of penal statutes against users and distributors of controlled substances, contemporary drug policy appears to have failed, even on its own terms, in a number of notable respects. These include: minimal reduction in the consumption of controlled substances; failure to reduce violent crime; failure to markedly reduce drug importation, distribution and street-level drug sales; failure to reduce the widespread availability of drugs to potential users; failure to deter individuals from becoming involved in the drug trade; failure to impact upon the huge profits and financial opportunity available to individual "entrepreneurs" and organized underworld organizations through engaging in the illicit drug trade; the expenditure of great amounts of increasingly limited public resources in pursuit of a cost-intensive "penal" or "law-enforcement" based policy; failure to provide meaningful treatment and other assistance to substance abusers and their families; and failure to provide meaningful alternative economic opportunities to those attracted to the drug trade for lack of other available avenues for financial advancement.
Moreover, a growing body of evidence and opinion suggests that contemporary drug policy, as pursued in recent decades, may be counterproductive and even harmful to the society whose public safety it seeks to protect. This conclusion becomes more readily apparent when one distinguishes the harms suffered by society and its members directly attributable to the pharmacological effects of drug use upon human behavior, from those harms resulting from policies attempting to eradicate drug use.
With aid of these distinctions, we see that present drug policy appears to contribute to the increase of violence in our communities. It does so by permitting and indeed, causing the drug trade to remain a lucrative source of economic opportunity for street dealers, drug kingpins and all those willing to engage in the often violent, illicit, black market trade.
Meanwhile, the effect of present policy serves to stigmatize and marginalize drug users, thereby inhibiting and undermining the efforts of many such individuals to remain or become productive, gainfully employed members of society. Furthermore, current policy has not only failed to provide adequate access to treatment for substance abuse, it has, in many ways, rendered the obtaining of such treatment, and of other medical services, more difficult and even dangerous to pursue. (en)
- Terence McKenna in: ''Non-Ordinary States Through Vision Plants'', Sound Photosynthesis, Mill Valley CA., 1988, ISBN 1-569-64709-7 (en)
- The Swedish Moderate Party (June 2006). '''' - policy summary published prior to the Swedish general election in 2006. (en)
- The police have been able to solve other crimes, e.g. burglaries, thefts and robberies, by questioning people arrested for using drugs. Some even provide information about people who are selling drugs, and the police have seized large amounts of drugs as a result of information from people brought in for a urine test. Many interrogations of drug abusers have also resulted in
search warrants and the recovery of stolen property. (en)
- There are things we can do about drug policy that would reduce the number of people in prison, and the extent of drug abuse and drug related crime. Legalization isn't one of them because there's not public support for it. And if we acknowledge the fact that, from the point of view of the majority of the population it's a loser, then it's not as if we can talk them out of that, so I think the legalization debate is mostly a distraction from doing the real work of fixing our drug policies (en)
- We're playing with half a deck as long as we tolerate that the cardinals of government and science should dictate where human curiosity can legitimately send its attention and where it can not. It's an essentially preposterous situation. It is essentially a civil rights issue, because what we're talking about here is the repression of a religious sensibility. In fact, not a religious sensibility, the religious sensibility. (en)
- […] it is because it's prohibited. See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true. (en)
- dbpedia:Milton_Friedman
- http://stopthedrugwar.org
- http://www.drugfree.org.au/fileadmin/Media/Reference/EvaBrannmark_Sweedish_Law_Enforcement.pdf
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| - The prohibition of drugs is a subject of considerable controversy. The following is a presentation of arguments for and against drug prohibition. (en)
- La prohibition des drogues est un principe d'interdiction - ou de réglementation stricte - sur la production, le commerce et l'usage de psychotropes afin de combattre les conséquences perçues comme négatives de l'usage de drogue. Cette interdiction est édictée par la loi, la morale ou la religion.Au niveau international, cette politique s'est mise en place via diverses conventions de l'ONU (conventions internationales de 1961, 1971 et 1988). Divers organes internationaux existent pour faire respecter l'application de ces textes, comme l'Office des Nations unies contre la drogue et le crime ou l'Organe international de contrôle des stupéfiants, et ils sont relayés sur le plan national par des structures locales. (fr)
- Die Legalisierung des Konsums, des Besitzes, der Produktion und der Weitergabe von illegalen Drogen ist ein kontrovers diskutiertes Thema in der Drogenpolitik. Der Debattenschwerpunkt liegt auf der Legalisierung sogenannter „weicher Drogen“ wie bestimmter Cannabis-Produkte, doch auch die Legalisierung sogenannter „harter Drogen“ wird diskutiert. Die Debatte ist schon seit Jahrhunderten im Gange und zeichnet sich durch ideologisch verhärtete Fronten aus. (de)
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