Pubdate: Fri, 08 Mar 2002
Source: Detroit News (MI)
Copyright: 2002, The Detroit News
Contact:  http://www.mapinc.org/media/126
Author: Peter Webster

PROHIBITION NEVER WORKS

Before gaining access to the public ear in The Detroit News, supporters of 
prohibitionary policy such as Susan L. Hiltz should be required to show 
whether prohibition does or does not deliver its purported goals. In fact, 
all major studies of prohibitions throughout the ages show that they 
reliably exacerbate the very problems they intend to remedy. This was the 
major reason why alcohol prohibition in the United States was repealed.

If "legalizing drugs ... sends a dangerous message to our children and our 
communities," as Hiltz insists, what message is transmitted by insistence 
on following a doctrine that simply does not work and never did?

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