Saturday, August 16, 2008

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

A former Seattle police chief is an outspoken critic of the war on drugs, which he believes causes untold misery, undermines effective law enforcement, and doesn't begin to pass any sort of cost-benefit analysis. One trillion dollars spent since the Nixon administration. To what end?

Norm Stamper believes that the drug war—and other wars on the behaviours on consenting adults, damages the idea that we own our bodies.

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