Pubdate: Tue, 28 Dec 2010
Source: Sydney Morning Herald (Australia)
Copyright: 2010 The Sydney Morning Herald
Contact:  http://www.smh.com.au/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/441
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v10/n1060/a09.html
Author: Raymond Seidler

HURDLES ON THE ROAD TO DECRIMINALISATION

Fernando Henrique Cardoso is not alone in recommending that the war on
drugs should end. What he fails to realise is that the insatiable
demand for drugs by cashed-up Western nations looking to alter their
collective state of consciousness is so great that to acknowledge its
extent is political poison.

Add to this the burgeoning industries that have sprung up to counter
the criminalisation of drugs. These would cease to make a nice living
were illicit drugs off the banned list.

Dr Raymond Seidler

Kings Cross 
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