Subject: Re: [drugwar] As addiction rises, Colombia weighs rolling back decade-old drug legalization Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 11:46:08 -0400 To: From: Bob Armstrong Note that the need for increased prohibition is argued on the basis simply of increased use rather than increased criminal behavior - unless techno and trance displacing salsa is considered intrinsically criminal . On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 10:23:46 -0400, Preston Peet wrote: >=A0http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20040405-0915-legalize= ddrugs.html ... >=A0No comprehensive study of domestic consumption has been carried= out since >=A01996, but a 2001 survey by the government's National Narcotics= Office found >=A0that nine of every 100 Colombian city-dwellers aged 12 to 25= regularly use >=A0drugs. >=A0Dr. Uribe (no relation to the president) blames legalization= for part of the >=A0increase, saying it made drugs more acceptable ... >=A0To Cubides' despair, the police can't or won't do much about= it. The sale of > drugs remains illegal, but suspected dealers can only be= arrested if >=A0caught with more than the legal limit. --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Pix+ : .CoSy.MidWinterParty 17 =A0:= http://cosy.com/y04/MidWinter17.htm Computing Environment : =A0http://CoSy.com/CoSy/ A WTC vision : http://CoSy.com/CoSy/ConicAllConnect/ Libertarian Presidential Candidates =A0:= http://CoSy.com/Liberty.htm Restore our Right to Relax : =A0http://ny.lp.org/cgi-bin/petition.cgi?Against_the_Smoking_Ban =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02004/04/09 11:37:18 AM