Pubdate: Tue, 20 Feb 2001
Source: Palm Beach Post (FL)
Copyright: 2001 The Palm Beach Post
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Author: Harry Fruit

FILM 'TRAFFIC' IGNORED A DRUG-WAR SOLUTION

The movie Traffic, nominated last week for several Oscars, paints a 
depressing picture of the drug war in the United States. It does not hint 
at the only possible solution: decriminalization. The money spent on 
defoliation, as well as imprisonment of traffickers and users, should 
instead be used for the treatment and rehabilitation of drug addicts.

Why is this not even being considered? Powerful interests, the huge prison 
industry and the array of law-enforcement personnel, are arrayed against 
any talk of decriminalization.

HARRY FRUIT

Lake Worth
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