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Drug
War advocate's arguments are shallow
June 10, 2002
- The Rocky Mountain News
by Joe Johnson
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his Speakout column of June 3, "War on Drugs should
not be abandoned," Richard Stacy refuses to
recognize facts while daring "anyone . . . to prove
otherwise" in his ill-founded argument to continue
the failed drug prohibition experiment. Stacy states ". . . alcohol lands more people in jail than all other drugs combined," despite the clearly documented fact that there are currently more people in federal prisons for drug offenses than all other crimes combined! To prove just how shallow the prohibitionist argument really is, he then implies that we would suddenly have surgeons operating and pilots flying while high on dope if we ended drug prohibition, as if we currently suffer from drunken doctors and pilots because of the end of alcohol prohibition. Lastly, he mentions Brittney Chambers' death from Ecstasy. Did he suddenly forget that Ecstasy is already illegal? Would making it "double illegal" bring Brittney back to life? He failed to mention of course, that Ismael Mena would be alive today if we had ended drug prohibition and its concomitant no-knock raids. Joseph Johnson, Chairman,
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