Pubdate: Fri, 18 May 2001
Source: Dallas Morning News (TX)
Copyright: 2001 The Dallas Morning News
Contact:  http://www.dallasnews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/117
Author: Peter Webster
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n834/a06.html

LET THE DEA ARREST ALL DRUG USERS

Re: "New drug czar, DEA chief seen as hard-liners," May 11.

With radical prohibitionists now appointed to every drug policy position in 
the current administration, perhaps the U.S. can finally enforce the drug 
laws like they should be enforced. Let the Drug Enforcement Administration 
now arrest all drug users, whether casual or seriously addicted, all those 
weekend tokers, all those crazy mushroom imbibers, all those deluded 
"medical marijuana" fans, and let thousands of new prisons and treatment 
centers be built to house all these evil people, and finally... finally... 
what?

It has been said that the best way to get rid of a bad law is to enforce it 
to the maximum. Let us hope the exaggeration of prohibition that seems 
certain to come during the present administration will demonstrate once and 
for all the fabulous folly of prosecuting consensual crimes in a free 
society, of locking up or forcibly "treating" people whose great misdeed is 
merely to prefer drugs other than the current range of socially and 
pharmaceutically approved ones.

PETER WEBSTER

Review Editor, International Journal of Drug Policy, Auvare, France
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