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To: Editorial/ RadioNews mailto:ninetonoon@radionz.co.nz

Lets all avoid discussing the engine that drives the unintended consequences, dysfunction and misplaced expenditure…. fatally flawed drug policy!

Until we confront that Moloch everything else will just confuse us.

(Despite Stephen Franks having written intelligently on this subject – his political/professional career and aspirations require him and Hon Simon Power, the Minister of Justice to pretend only their political views are legitimate and worthy. It would have to be notable that Franks said he was a liberal 30-40 years ago… and the Drug War started when Stephen – Ya sycophantic plonker! Meanwhile, Sensible Sentence’s McVicars arcane views sails close to hate speech. )

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How Swift Is Too Swift For Justice?.

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“How swift is too swift for justice?“:

The easiest and most expedient way to deal with court workload (and attendent injustice) is to resolve the tensions underpining ‘drug law’ and the plethora of unintended consequences. In answer to the naysayers to this suggestion, either drugs are a problem or they are not. One cannot back both horses and win.

Posted by Blair Anderson to TUMEKE! at 2/7/09 9:58 AM

note:

COHA Responds to the UN World Drug Report

As pointed out in the report, the right answer is not to regulate and heavily tax drug sales; government profiteering from citizen addiction would be neither ethical nor helpful for eliminating black markets. Allowing marginalized addicts back into society and providing medical treatment to them are large benefits of decriminalization, in addition to reducing unnecessarily costly and high incarceration rates.

Yet, despite unflagging optimism, any strategy short of legalization has proven statistically impotent and historically futile in promoting peace, democratic institutions, freedom from oppression, and strengthening the rule of law. By providing billions of dollars for the purchase of weapons and the corruption of civil institutions, prohibition has infected and destroyed not only whole families and communities but entire countries, including the lives of those who made no conscious decision to participate in drug related activities.

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