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1996, ISBN 0-684-81135-9
* * The drug war never had a stronger supporter than President George Bush. * * He showered the nation's drug warriors with money---nearly tripling the * overall anti-narcotics budget from $4.3 billion in 1988 to $11.9 billion * in 1992. * * The results were disappointing. * * After four years there was more cocaine on the streets than ever. * Naturally, it was also cheaper than ever. * * The overall crime rate was unchanged too. * * Inside Main Justice, such numbers are depressing. To those outside the law * enforcement community, it might have seemed an ironic, even heretical * notion, but to many of the career lawyers and prosecutors inside Main * Justice it was an article of faith that solving the nation's drug problem * could not be accomplished by prosecution and jail sentences alone. These * career people feel the answer is self-evident: Education, rehabilitation * and improving the grim lot of most of those prone to drug addiction ought * to become national priorities. * * Said David Margolis, who had supervised the Criminal Division's anti- * narcotics efforts in the early 1990s: "Anyone who thinks that drug * enforcement is primarily a law enforcement issue, they're smoking wacky * tabacky." Tell all the damn manipulative politicians. Jail's not even cost effective. * RAND Study Finds Mandatory Minimums Cost-Ineffective * ---------------------------------------------------- * * Excerpt from RAND Press Release: * * Washington, DC, May 12, 1997 -- If cutting drug consumption and * drug-related crime are the nation's prime drug control * objectives, then the ma |
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