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Legalize it All
How to win the war on drugs
Baum, Dan http://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
Publisher: Harper's Magazine
Date Written: 01/04/2016
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Article
Arguing for complete legalization as a means of dealing with substance problems in America.
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If it is time now to start thinking creatively about legalization, we'd be wise to remember that, like carefully laid military plans, detailed drug-liberalization strategies probably won't survive their first contact with reality. "People are thinking about the utopian endgame, but the transition will be unpredictable", says Sterling, of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation. "Whatever system of regulation gets set up, there will be people who exploit the edged. But that's true for speeding, for alcohol, for guns." Withhout a state-run monopoly, there will be more than one type of legal, regulated drug market, he says, and the markets won't solve every conceivable problem.
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